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third-person singular simple present bemouths, present participle bemouthing, simple past and past participle bemouthed
(transitive) To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim. examples
(transitive) To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat. quotations examples
Entering the hotel they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, bemouthed a cigar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his power.
1841, Miss M. Corbett, The New Happy Week, page 161
All made of Flanders cloth, And now bemouthed of many a moth […]
1879, Theodore Tilton, The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton in One Volume