mouthfilling
adjEtymology From mouth + filling.
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Impressive and/or grandiloquent.
- Sweare me Kate like a ladie as thou art, / A good mouthfilling oath, and leaue in ſooth, / And ſuch proteſt of pepper ginger bread / To veluet gards, and Sunday Citizens.c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature F.iii, verso:
- When he had nearly missed—as of course he intended to do, thereby startling the reader—the mouth of the cavern, and when he had struck his flints viciously– which implies a hasty temper and is a mouthfilling word—and when the dry wood had spluttered, as if it were wet, and had crackled into a flame—just to show how dry it was—and when he had cast a nervous, furtive, dime-novel glance around and had cast his skins from his breast the mystery is displayed—a fearful, rough-hewn flint axe with dark brownish streaks, which is a very terrible suggestion, I say when he had done all this, his diminutive little red eyes gleamed with whole-souled satisfaction.1902, George Mather Richards, “Nemesis”, in The Guilelmensian, Williamstown, Mass.: […] [T]he Junior Class of Williams College, page 286:
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- Boston calls him “Tahft,” which is more of a mouthfilling name.1909 May 18, The Atlanta Constitution, volume XLI, number 337, Atlanta, Ga., page 6, column 1:
- Bryan for secretary of state, Dr. Wiley for secretary of agriculture, Louis D. Brandeis for attorney general! It is a mouthfilling trio.1912 November 9, “Graphites”, in The Graphic, volume XXXVII, number 24, Los Angeles, Calif., page 3, column 3:
- “Decadent” is a mouthfilling word which means that the democracies have grown senile, their vigor and strength are falling into ruin and decay.1940 October 19, “‘Decadent’ Democracies ‘Barring Progress’”, in Army Times: National Weekly Newspaper For The United States Army, volume 1, number 10, Washington, D.C., page 4, column 1:
- Another psychological process that may help to explain why a war absorbs more and more of the combatants’ emotions and energies has been given the mouthfilling designation “circular incremental magnification.”1967, Jerome D[avid] Frank, “Psychological Aspects of Prewar Crises and War”, in Sanity and Survival: Psychological Aspects of War and Peace, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 188:
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Flavorful
- Quite mouthfilling, if not intense, good balance if not very long.1990, Steven Spurrier, Michel Dovaz, Académie du Vin Wine Course: The Complete Course in Wine Appreciation, Tasting and Study of the Paris Académie du Vin, London: Mitchell Beazley in association with Christie’s Wine Publications, →ISBN, page 177, column 3:
- French oak-fermented and lees-stirred, it is mouthfilling and creamy-smooth, in a softly structured style with vibrant, grapefruit-like flavours and a touch of mealy, biscuity complexity.2007, Michael Cooper, Michael Cooper’s Buyer’s Guide to New Zealand Wines 2008, Auckland: Hodder Moa, →ISBN, page 57:
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- A recent standout, which I tasted blind alongside a range of equally excellent Greek dry whites, Veralda’s example has a mouthwatering tension between mouthfilling tropical fruitiness, olive oiliness, tingling lemon and minerals that would be superb with meaty white fish with herby accompaniments.2017 May 7, David Williams, “A taste of Croatia”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 May 2017: