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badmouth

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈbæd.maʊθ/

Definition of badmouth

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (informal, transitive)To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
    “[…] those cross-Atlantic aficionados who persistently idolize the British theater and bad-mouth Broadway.”
    “He also believed that Mr. Altman was bad-mouthing the board to OpenAI executives, two people with knowledge of the situation said.”

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Etymology

Calque of a Mande term, perhaps Vai [Term?] or Mandinka [Term?], which entered English via Gullah [Term?]. Compare Japanese 悪口(わるぐち) (waruguchi, “badmouthing”), which is a compound of 悪(わる) (waru, “bad, wicked”) and 口(くち) (kuchi, “mouth”).

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