Meaning

Impressive and/or grandiloquent..

Definitions by Sense

1. Impressive and/or grandiloquent.
2. Flavorful

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Boston calls him “Tahft,” which is more of a mouthfilling name.

Bryan for secretary of state, Dr. Wiley for secretary of agriculture, Louis D. Brandeis for attorney general! It is a mouthfilling trio.

“Decadent” is a mouthfilling word which means that the democracies have grown senile, their vigor and strength are falling into ruin and decay.

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.”

African Literature Today. […] A necessary exception—like Sechaba—to the “made in Africa” dictum, this “forum for the examination of the literature of Africa,” which supersedes the “mouthfilling” Bulletin of the Association for African Literature in English, is edited by Eldred D. Jones, professor of English at the University of Sierra Leone.

In his own journal bearing the mouthfilling title, Lyon’s Republican Magazine, the Scourge of Aristocracy and Repository of Important Political Truths, Lyon advised Americans that they should prepare to resist Federalist efforts to impose a “state of abject slavery.”

Word Forms

• more mouthfilling
• most mouthfilling

When Should You Use Mouth filling?

Use mouth filling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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