- [countable] an amount of food or drink that you put in your mouth at one time
- She took a mouthful of water.
- Thank you, but I couldn’t eat another mouthful.
- He talked eagerly between mouthfuls of salad.
Extra Examples- I choked on a mouthful of tea.
- She answered through a mouthful of cake.
- She landed on her face, getting a mouthful of sand.
- She took a large mouthful of bread and started to read the letter.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- huge
- large
- first
- …
- drink
- eat
- gulp
- …
- between mouthfuls
- through a mouthful
- mouthful of
- …
- [singular] (informal) a word or a phrase that is long and complicated or difficult to pronounce
- My name’s Zacharias. You can call me Zach if it’s too much of a mouthful.
- Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows (what a mouthful!)
Idioms
See mouthful in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygive somebody a mouthful
- (informal, especially British English) to speak angrily to somebody, perhaps swearing at them
- He gave the referee a mouthful.
say a mouthful
- (North American English, informal) to say something important
- You said a mouthful there, buddy.
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