mouth music

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mouth music

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Calque of Scottish Gaelic puirt à beul (“tunes from a mouth”).

noun

  1. uncountable The vocal imitation of instrumental music. She herself or one of the other crofter women of the townland would sing to us the mouth music.
  2. uncountable Words (or sometimes actions) that sound good but do not mean anything. I lived both with no belief in a higher power and I lived with a so-called religious belief in a higher power that was purely a dead religion. It was just mouth music.
  3. slang, uncountable Oral sex. At some point in almost every gay encounter someone will play a little mouth music.

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@misc{mouth_music_2026,
  title = {mouth music},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mouth%20music},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}