| 释义 |
splay-mouthed, a. ? Obs.
[f. splay v.1]
Having a wide or wry mouth. Also transf.
1651Cleveland Poems 41 Had I but Elsing's gift (that splay-mouth'd brother). 1687T. Brown Alsop's State Conform. Wks. 1711 IV. 119 This is a happiness, crys our splay⁓mouth'd Tallow-Chandler. 1718Entertainer No. 30. 202 The Splay-Mouth'd Covenanters, that Sanctified Crew of Hypocrites. 1812Examiner 14 Sept. 590/1 His vulgar volubility and splay-mouthed pronunciation. |