mouth – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of mouth

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to mouth off
Participle: mouthed off
Gerund: mouthing off

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Imouth off
youmouth off
he;she;itmouths off
wemouth off
youmouth off
theymouth off

Perfect

Ihave mouthed off
youhave mouthed off
he;she;ithas mouthed off
wehave mouthed off
youhave mouthed off
theyhave mouthed off

Past

Imouthed off
youmouthed off
he;she;itmouthed off
wemouthed off
youmouthed off
theymouthed off

Pluperfect

Ihad mouthed off
youhad mouthed off
he;she;ithad mouthed off
wehad mouthed off
youhad mouthed off
theyhad mouthed off

Future

Iwill mouth off
youwill mouth off
he;she;itwill mouth off
wewill mouth off
youwill mouth off
theywill mouth off

Future Perfect

Iwill have mouthed off
youwill have mouthed off
he;she;itwill have mouthed off
wewill have mouthed off
youwill have mouthed off
theywill have mouthed off

Subjunctive

Present

Imouth off
youmouth off
he;she;itmouth off
wemouth off
youmouth off
theymouth off

Perfect

Ihave mouthed off
youhave mouthed off
he;she;ithave mouthed off
wehave mouthed off
youhave mouthed off
theyhave mouthed off

Imperfect

Imouthed off
youmouthed off
he;she;itmouthed off
wemouthed off
youmouthed off
theymouthed off

Pluperfect

Ihad mouthed off
youhad mouthed off
he;she;ithad mouthed off
wehad mouthed off
youhad mouthed off
theyhad mouthed off

Conditional

Present

Iwould mouth off
youwould mouth off
he;she;itwould mouth off
wewould mouth off
youwould mouth off
theywould mouth off

Perfect

Iwould have mouthed off
youwould have mouthed off
he;she;itwould have mouthed off
wewould have mouthed off
youwould have mouthed off
theywould have mouthed off

Imperative

youmouth off
weLet's mouth off
youmouth off

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam mouthing off
youare mouthing off
he;she;itis mouthing off
weare mouthing off
youare mouthing off
theyare mouthing off

Perfect

Ihave been mouthing off
youhave been mouthing off
he;she;ithas been mouthing off
wehave been mouthing off
youhave been mouthing off
theyhave been mouthing off

Past

Iwas mouthing off
youwere mouthing off
he;she;itwas mouthing off
wewere mouthing off
youwere mouthing off
theywere mouthing off

Pluperfect

Ihad been mouthing off
youhad been mouthing off
he;she;ithad been mouthing off
wehad been mouthing off
youhad been mouthing off
theyhad been mouthing off

Future

Iwill be mouthing off
youwill be mouthing off
he;she;itwill be mouthing off
wewill be mouthing off
youwill be mouthing off
theywill be mouthing off

Future Perfect

Iwill have been mouthing off
youwill have been mouthing off
he;she;itwill have been mouthing off
wewill have been mouthing off
youwill have been mouthing off
theywill have been mouthing off

Conditional

Present

Iwould be mouthing off
youwould be mouthing off
he;she;itwould be mouthing off
wewould be mouthing off
youwould be mouthing off
theywould be mouthing off

Perfect

Iwould have been mouthing off
youwould have been mouthing off
he;she;itwould have been mouthing off
wewould have been mouthing off
youwould have been mouthing off
theywould have been mouthing off

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'mouth'

abandon, abduct, abear, aberr, abject, abord, abort, abound, abraid, abray, abrook, abscind, abscond, absist, absorb, abstain, abstract, accend, accent, accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'mouth'

moth, mouch, south, auth, bemouth, bout, coath, couch, cough, dough,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

speak
declaim, orate, harangue, rant, rave, soapbox

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. O.E. muþ, from P.Gmc. *munthaz (cf. O.Fris. muth, O.N. munnr, M.Du. mont, Ger. Mund, Goth. munþs "mouth"), with characteristic loss of nasal consonant in O.E. (cf. tooth, goose, etc.), from PIE *mnto-s (cf. L. mentum "chin"). In the sense of "outfall of a river" it is attested from c.1122; as the opening of anything with capacity (a bottle, cave, etc.) it is recorded from c.1200. The verb is c.1300, "to speak," from the noun. Mouthful "a lot to say" is from 1748.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *men-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
5. Proto-Indo-European *mn̥-tó-s
6. Proto-Germanic *munþaz
7. Proto-West Germanic *munþ
8. Old English mūþ
9. Middle English mouth
10. English mouth
11. From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”).
12. Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk munn (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite 𒈨𒂊𒉌𒄿 (me-e-ni-i /⁠mēni⁠/, “face, cheek”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun.

Verbs referencing "mouth"

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Sample Sentences

  • He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
  • How can you get up there and mouth such clichés?
  • mouthing big phrases [1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:]
  • The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
  • She mouthed a warning to me as the teacher entered the room.
  • One was of a face repeatedly mouthing the vowel sound eee, the other was of a face repeatedly mouthing the vowel sound ahhh. [2010, Jan Faull, Jennifer McLean Oliver, Amazing Minds:]
  • It should be explained that lip patterns are generally not the same as patterns which would be made by 'mouthing' words. [2016, Wayne Morris, Theology without Words: Theology in the Deaf Community:]
  • "So very hot,” I mouthed at myself in the mirror. [2020, Wanitta Praks, Maid to the Mafia:]
  • But words are nothing to the misbelieving -- mere air mouthed into a sound. [1886, James Hogg, Polmood series, page 51:]
  • There was also a close temporal contiguity between "smiling" or other "emotional" grimaces and mouthing and tonguing movements, so that it was often difficult to distinguish between mouthing and smiling. [1987, Peter H. Wolff, The Development of Behavioral States and the Expression of Emotions in Early Infancy, page 15:]
  • She [Marjorie Taylor Greene] seems to have sincerely believed the lies that shrewder players merely mouthed. [2025 November 22, David Frum, “Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke”, in The Atlantic:]
  • Those who endeavor to become eloquent by mere imitation of some celebrated model—an actor for instance—often attempt to gain this quality by altering their voice in an unnatural manner. Such a process never produces any thing but mouthing. [1846, Erasmus Darwin North, Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College, page 123:]
  • This view of voice cultivation excludes all mouthing and ranting which have been thought to be necessary incidents of voice culture. [1902, George Andrew Lewis, The Practical treatment of stammering and stuttering, page 195:]
  • In this part of the address the position of the principal hanging-valleys was indicated , and it was pointed out that there were two sets, namely those which mouthed into valleys that had been deepened in softer rocks, and those which mouthed into portions of main valleys that had been deepened along shatter-bolts. [1906, Philosophical Magazine, page 96:]
  • Suddenly an avalanche of stones turned loose right down a ravine and mouthed out on the road, stones large enough to knock a horse down, or larger, and a plenty of them to do a fair job on a large group. [1999, T. Walter Middleton, Qualla: Home of the Middle Cherokee Settlement, page 39:]
  • The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
  • She alighted and mouthed over several within a small space and a short time; and these buds were not at the bottom of the hedge; nor was she searching for a nest-site. [1887 September, Charles Robson, “Natural History Jottings: On Wasps, chiefly”, in Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor, editors, Hardwicke's Science-gossip, number 273, page 210:]
  • His manner of feeding was curious, any fish he was provided with not being snapped up immediately, but played with and mouthed all over for a quarter of an hour or more, when it suddenly disappeared as if by magic. [1889, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard, The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea, page 165:]
  • He would not touch any of our food that the bears had pawed and mouthed over, fearing it might be bad medicine for him, so some was got for him from Red Wing Woman. [1920, James Willard Schultz, The Dreadful River Cave: Chief Black Elk's Story, page 50:]
  • Everyone is kind of aroused, Thanatz is sitting up on the bar having his own as yet unsheathed penis mouthed by one of the white-gloved Wends. [1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:]
  • She found foamy saliva where the coyote had mouthed over the dogs, but no place showed any bite. [1999, Laura Tice Lage, Sagebrush Homesteads, page 257:]
  • Sometimes I ate food that the rats had already mouthed over; picking away the edges where they had been eating and using the remainder; not with any good grace, not without qualms; but because I had nothing else to eat. [1938, Jack Common, Seven Shifts, page 62:]
  • Each contained a long, wide, solid oak table around which all who could find a space the width of his body would mouth his brown-bag grub from home. [1998, Marvin K. Rubin, Word of Mouth: A Manhattan Dentist Tells All-- (well, Almost), page 77:]
  • They were sucking off whatever adhered to the floating stems and leaves of the plants. They went from plant to plant and mouthed over each branch from base to tip until the whole plant had been gone over. [1915, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries - Volume 33, page 224:]
  • Meanwhile she, and the male, mouthed over the inner surface of pot until it was as clean as could be. [1937, Aquarium Journal - Volume 10, Issue 5, page 7:]
  • Before egg-laying begins, the spawning grounds are mouthed over (cleaned) by both sexes. [1965, The Aquarist and Pondkeeper - Volumes 30-31, page 182:]
  • Small slobs of things, wet and sticky, which Peggy herself distastefully mouthed out from her cavity, biting the cord which bound them to her, swallowing it, then licking the puppies clean one by one. [1970, Christine Weston, The Hoopoe, page 6:]
  • This transfer system continues until the young are free-swimming, which may be for another 3 or 4 days. Each time they are moved to a new pit, they are mouthed over and spat into their new crèche. [1953, Clifford Walter Emmens, Keeping and Breeding Aquarium Fishes, page 154:]
  • He drew the cork from his bottle..and mouthed at his companions even while he bowed to them. [1827, Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey:]
  • Meanwhile, the tyrant, with untimely wit And mouthing face, derides the small one's moan, Who, all lamenting for his loss, doth sit, [1854, Thomas Hood, “The Irish Schoolmaster”, in Poems of Thomas Hood, volume 2, page 40:]
  • And that other face -- that awful, gibbering, mouthing face she drew away. [1873, May Agnes Fleming, A Wonderful Woman, page 269:]
  • But active as this old professor of the dance was, he had when a child in Paris, in 1793, seen Marie Antoinette on the way to the scaffold, and described the unfortunate queen, with her gray hair cut short, her hands tied, seated in the cart, still retaining her calm demeanour as the mob shouted and mouthed around her . [1883, Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, My Reminiscences - Volume 1, page 148:]
  • The man mouthed at the bars. He was half-mad, I think, in that one minute. [1906, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, At a Winter's Fire, page 240:]
  • What ensues next is a comical soundless argument only true parents will understand. It's all mouthing and miming, facial expression and hand flailing. [2014, Emma Chase, Tied:]
  • The front end of the barrel has to be mouthed out conically, so that the various centre points may fit it. [1773, Paul. N. Hasluck, “Lathe-Making For Amateurs”, in Amateur work, illustrated - Volume 1, page 426:]
  • The front collar must be mouthed out as shown, to take the second cone on the mandrel. [1882, Paul Nooncree Hasluck, The Metal Turner's Handbook, page 76:]
  • The cutting edge of a shaving cutter should be mouthed out slightly with a fine oilstone. [1956, Mechanical World and Engineering Record - Volume 136, page 471:]
  • Either at the shipping point or as they leave the summer range, the older ewes are “mouthed out.” That is, their mouths are examined to see if their teeth are good for another year. [1938, Byron Hunter, Harry W. Pearson, Alonzo Frederick Vass, Type of Farming and Ranching Areas in Wyoming, page 96:]
  • No information could be found on the relationship between the productivity of ewes and the states of their mouths. While there is no doubt that the practice of “mouthing" ewes is founded on experience, the traditional standards may require modification since the adoption almost exclusively of grassland farming, particularly in the North Island. [1957, The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, page 587:]
  • After we got the ewes "mouthed out," we turned them over to the herder that Foncy had hired to drive them to Shaniko. [1976, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Historical Quarterly, page 27:]
  • Daniels told complainants in substance he would not buy any sheep without mouthing them. [1977, United States. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Decisions, page 1141:]