mouthy
- adjective
- /ˈmaʊθi/
- Offensive
- When he started making mouthy comments during the meeting, everyone felt uncomfortable.
- get mouthy
- mouthy bitch
So if your girlfriend gets mouthy, you can take it out.
- So if your girlfriend gets mouthy, you can take it out.
- It was being now put cheeky and mouthy and being the E man all night.
Examples
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My son is also strong-willed, stubborn, and "mouthy"—all traits that he comes by honestly from me.
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Stacey, you're mouthy.
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- Is she always this mouthy?
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You weren't so mouthy before, Grady.
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I was so completely mortified, and I tend to get quite mouthy when I'm feeling humiliated.
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Okay, don't get mouthy.
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The mouthy teenager couldn't stop arguing with the teacher in a disrespectful manner.
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She was being mouthy at the dinner table, challenging her parents' authority.
Synonyms
A person who often says rude words
A person who speaks loudly and says rude things
Rude or cheeky when talking back to people in charge
A person who speaks in a rude, harsh way
A person who talks too much and tells other people's secrets
Quick to say sharp things that hurt
Antonyms
Compounds
How Rude
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mouthy comes from mouth plus the ending -y, meaning 'full of', and it paints a picture of someone who 'has a lot of mouth' or gives backtalk. That's why mouthy describes a person who talks a lot in a rude or disrespectful way.