mouth soaping
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of forcing soap into a person's mouth as punishment, typically for using foul language or for something else related to speech, such as lying.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Applications of justice may range all the way from mouth soaping to murder; many different situations call for different forms of justice."
- "Strict with her own children, she seemed to us, when we were little, a little indifferent to property rights, often extending the hairbrushing or mouth-soaping of her own delinquents to Daisy's."
- "A mouth soaping does not erase the dirty word from mind."
- "Unfortunately the Coomers failed to see the humor of the situation, and I picked up several new obscenities and some fascinating combinations of the mouth-soaping words I already knew."
- "Matthew met the girl's stare with equal force and said calmly, "You have heard a lie, and whoever told you such a thing is not only a liar but a soul in need of a mouth-soaping."
- "While not worth a mouth soaping, boredom can indicate the problem of turning inward."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
wash one's mouth out
soap one's mouth