mooth

Scots

Picture dictionary

mooth

skult

brain

ey

nose

mooth

chin

jaw

ear

haffet

neck

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Alternative forms

• mouth, mowth, mou, moo, mu, mow
• (diminutives) mouthie, mouthy, mooie

Etymology

From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ (“mouth, opening, door, gate”), from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with English mouth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muθ/

Noun

mooth (plural mooths)

1. mouth

References

• “mooth”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• Eagle, Andy, editor (2024), “mooth”, in The Online Scots Dictionary‎^[1]