"flannelmouth" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From flannel + mouth.",
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          "ref": "1913, Jack London, chapter 4, in The Valley of the Moon:",
          "text": "\"Oh!—Oh!—Oh!\" Bert screamed, with every blow she struck \"Hey, old flannel-mouth! Watch out! You'll get yours in a second.\"",
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          "ref": "1943 October 8, “Why Give Clues to Your Age?”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 2011-10-11, page 5:",
          "text": "[Y]ou may detect your own \"elderly\" tricks—pushing your shoulders up around your ears, being a mumble-boy or a flannelmouth!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 November 30, Jeff Greenfield, “With Respect, You Moron...”, in Time:",
          "text": "How do they sit there, hour after hour, and listen to the congressional gasbags without blowing their tops? . . . never once leaping over the table, grabbing an inquisitor by his ears and screaming, \"Hey, flannel mouth—does the phrase ‘posturing hypocrite windbag’ ring a bell?\"",
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        "One who speaks in an unclear, muffled, or sluggish manner."
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        "(informal, dated) One who speaks in an unclear, muffled, or sluggish manner."
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          "ref": "1947 January 6, George O'Halloran, “Chester the Pup”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 2011-10-11, page 2:",
          "text": "Uncle Sedgwick, who is considered around and about as somewhat of a flannelmouth, has talked Drizzlepuss into going ice fishing. . . . Uncle can tell you some wonderful fish stories, but, boy, I've never known a guy who's so careless with the truth.",
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          "ref": "1962 October 11, Hal Boyle, “Joy Gladly Spread”, in Spokane Daily Chronicle, retrieved 2011-10-11, page 4:",
          "text": "\"Flannelmouth Fred\"—He spends most of his time going around indiscriminately patting all the other employes on the back and saying \"You're doing a grand job.\" . . . But the rest of the hired hands . . . know that after they finish doing their work, he'll ask them to help do his.",
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          "text": "How do they sit there, hour after hour, and listen to the congressional gasbags without blowing their tops? . . . never once leaping over the table, grabbing an inquisitor by his ears and screaming, \"Hey, flannel mouth—does the phrase ‘posturing hypocrite windbag’ ring a bell?\"",
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          "text": "Uncle Sedgwick, who is considered around and about as somewhat of a flannelmouth, has talked Drizzlepuss into going ice fishing. . . . Uncle can tell you some wonderful fish stories, but, boy, I've never known a guy who's so careless with the truth.",
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          "text": "\"Flannelmouth Fred\"—He spends most of his time going around indiscriminately patting all the other employes on the back and saying \"You're doing a grand job.\" . . . But the rest of the hired hands . . . know that after they finish doing their work, he'll ask them to help do his.",
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