bemouth

To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim.

Verb

  1. To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim.
  2. To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat.
    • Entering the hotel they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, bemouthed a cigar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his power. - 1841, Miss M. Corbett, The New Happy Week, page 161:
    • All made of Flanders cloth, And now bemouthed of many a moth […] - 1879, Theodore Tilton, The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton in One Volume:

Origin

From be- + mouth.

Forms

bemouths bemouthing bemouthed