lower mouth
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The lower jaw.
noun
The lower lip.
noun
The vulva.
Example Sentences
- "It was a very raw, clear and cruel picture: a closeup of her as she lay semiconscious and wounded, her beaten face distorted by swelling; her jaws wired into place; her lower mouth with totally exposed gums, broken teeth and ripped flesh giving her face the appearance of a fright mask."
- "Her top fillings had crumbled into a powder and had fallen out. Some in her lower mouth had become embedded in the gums and extensive dental work was needed to sort her out."
- "‘Cancer,’ she said, only it sounded like canfer. ‘All in my lower mouth, my jaw. They took it all. They took my whole face.’"
- "“And when you smile—” her finger stilled its search, remaining on the full curve of his lower mouth “—and part your lips like that...” Weaving her fingers through his dark, wavy hair, she brought his head slowly downward until their breaths mingled, inches apart. “It’s remarkably tempting.”"
- "This young man - whose face was steak from his upper right eye socket to the corner of his lower mouth - uttered one day after his wound had been dressed the sound ‘A’her ease nur’."
- "He also had what you would consider an almost “pained smile” on his face, his lower mouth looked like it was smiling, but the rest of his face was tense, with the muscles around his eyes not moving at all."
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.
Inflected Forms
lower mouths (plural)
lowermouth (alternative)