"mouth off" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-mouth off.ogg [Australia] Forms: mouths off [present, singular, third-person], mouthing off [participle, present], mouthed off [participle, past], mouthed off [past]
Etymology: From mouth + off. Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} mouth off (third-person singular simple present mouths off, present participle mouthing off, simple past and past participle mouthed off)
  1. (intransitive, slang) To complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner. Tags: intransitive, slang Categories (topical): Talking Translations (to complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner): plendi (Esperanto), meuhkata (Finnish), se plaindre (French), распускать язык (raspuskatʹ jazyk) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-mouth_off-en-verb-wWVUrj1S Disambiguation of Talking: 59 41 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (off), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 61 39 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (off): 63 37 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 60 40 Disambiguation of 'to complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner': 97 3
  2. (transitive, intransitive, slang) To talk impudently, especially to one's superior. Tags: intransitive, slang, transitive Translations (to talk impudently, especially to one's superior): meuhkata (Finnish), odpyskiwać [imperfective] (Polish), odpyskowywać [imperfective] (Polish), odpyskować [perfective] (Polish), дерзить (derzitʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-mouth_off-en-verb-T-YKyuiy Disambiguation of "to talk impudently, especially to one's superior": 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: shoot one's mouth off Related terms: loudmouth

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From mouth + off.",
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        "To complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner."
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        "(intransitive, slang) To complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner."
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          "sense": "to complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, “Play It Again, Brian”, in Family Guy, Herbert (actor)",
          "text": "And don't you mouth off to me, or I'm gonna slap you right in your penis.",
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner",
      "word": "plendi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner",
      "word": "meuhkata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner",
      "word": "se plaindre"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "raspuskatʹ jazyk",
      "sense": "to complain or otherwise express oneself in a loud, immoderate manner",
      "word": "распускать язык"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to talk impudently, especially to one's superior",
      "word": "meuhkata"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to talk impudently, especially to one's superior",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "odpyskiwać"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to talk impudently, especially to one's superior",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "odpyskowywać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to talk impudently, especially to one's superior",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "odpyskować"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "derzitʹ",
      "sense": "to talk impudently, especially to one's superior",
      "word": "дерзить"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mouth off"
}

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