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mouthing

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of mouth
  2. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of mouthe

noun mouthings

  1. The act of forming a shape with the mouth. Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).
  2. Ranting; passionate speech devoid of meaning. Kearn did not rant, he did not deafen you with heroics and empty mouthings.

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@misc{mouthing_2026,
  title = {mouthing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mouthing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}