black-mouthed
/ˈblakˌmaʊðd/adjective
Having a black mouth; (figurative ) slanderous; foul-mouthed.
Origin
Mid 16th century; earliest use found in John Heywood (c1496–c1578), playwright and epigrammatist. From black + mouthed. In black-mouthed dogfish after scientific Latin melanostomus.
- leading light
- leading man
- leading note
- leading question
- leading rein
- leading seaman
- leading tone
- lead in one's pencil
- lead nowhere
- lead off
- lead pencil
- lead poisoning
- lead shot
- lead someone a dance (or a merry dance)
- lead someone a merry dance
- lead someone astray
- lead someone by the nose
- lead someone on
- lead someone to the altar
- lead someone up (or down) the garden path
- lead someone up the aisle
- lead story
- lead-swinger
- lead tetraethyl
- lead the field