What does poor mouth mean?
Poor mouth means (ambitransitive, informal) To claim to be poor..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(ambitransitive, informal) To claim to be poor..
On the other hand one does not want to arrive “poor-mouthing it” in some outrageous turtleneck and West Eighth Street bell-jean combination, as if one is “funky” and of “the people.”
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Poor mouth means (ambitransitive, informal) To claim to be poor..
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On the other hand one does not want to arrive “poor-mouthing it” in some outrageous turtleneck and West Eighth Street bell-jean combination, as if one is “funky” and of “the people.”
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