openmouthed

See also: open-mouthed

English

Adjective

openmouthed (comparative more openmouthed, superlative most openmouthed)

  1. Alternative form of open-mouthed
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
      The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.
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