What does gapemouthed mean?
Gapemouthed means Alternative form of gape-mouthed..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Alternative form of gape-mouthed..
While the rock world seemed generally gapemouthed by the tragedy and the country crowd descended to knee-jerk jingoism, blues artists tried to put the whole horrible business in some sort of perspective.
One showed a gapemouthed cluster of little folks watching a magician pull a white rabbit from a hat.
Every time I talk to a woman about some things I am left gapemouthed and wishing terribly that I had a large dog with a heavily callused butt.
Standing on the big chair, she stuffed them into that gapemouthed fish.
There are no more gapemouthed crocuses, or poppies wide with woe to wreath her fingers; the earth is a hunched and sightless woman, holding herself together with her hair.
Abreast of the first soldier, he too took in the round collar and halted gapemouthed.
Use gapemouthed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gapemouthed means Alternative form of gape-mouthed..
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While the rock world seemed generally gapemouthed by the tragedy and the country crowd descended to knee-jerk jingoism, blues artists tried to put the whole horrible business in some sort of perspective.
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