What does mouthing mean?
Mouthing means present participle and gerund of mouth.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of mouth.
Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).
Kearn did not rant, he did not deafen you with heroics and empty mouthings.
Use mouthing when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mouthing means present participle and gerund of mouth.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).
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