mouthfulnoun
uk/ˈmaʊθ.fʊl/us/ˈmaʊθ.fʊl/mouthful noun (AMOUNT)
[ C ] an amount of food or drink that fills your mouth, or that you put into your mouth at one time:
He only ate a few mouthfuls of meat.
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Food - general words
- aliment
- bed
- carb
- chanterelle
- chow
- diabetic
- fibre
- foodstuff
- fruits of the earth idiom
- greengrocer
- grocer
- grocery
- pap
- ration
- refreshment
- roughage
- serving
- shelf life
- speciality
- tuck
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mouthful noun (WORD)
[ S ] informal a word or phrase that is difficult to pronounce or that has a lot of syllables:
I've always called myself Henny because it's less of a mouthful than Henrietta.
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Ways of speaking
- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- cut glass
- get your tongue around/round sth idiom
- intone
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- pragmatics
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- sotto voce
- speech therapy
- spoken
- stumble
- trip off the tongue idiom
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Idiom(s)
give someone a mouthful