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Mouthing

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language.

    "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. 2
    Ranting; passionate speech devoid of meaning.

    "Kearn did not rant, he did not deafen you with heroics and empty mouthings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of mouth form-of, gerund, participle, present
  2. 2
    present participle and gerund of mouthe form-of, gerund, participle, present

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