bemouth, v.
(bɪˈmaʊð)
[f. be- 2 + mouth v.]
trans. To mouth the praises of (a person); to talk grandiloquently, to declaim.
| a 1843 Southey Nondescr. i, They heard the illustrious furbelow'd Heroically in Popean rhyme Tee-ti-tum'd, in Miltonic blank bemouth'd. 1882 F. Harrison Crisis in Egypt 6 The peace and good name of a great people are not to be bemouthed away by diplomatic brag. |