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- [kot-n-mouth]
- /ˈkɒt nˌmaʊθ/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [kot-n-mouth]
- /ˈkɒt nˌmaʊθ/
Definitions of cottonmouth word
- noun cottonmouth water moccasin 3
- noun plural cottonmouth a venomous snake, Agkistrodon (Ancistrodon) piscivorus, of swamps in southeastern U.S., that grows to about 4 feet (1.2 meters). 1
- noun cottonmouth A large, dangerous semiaquatic pit viper that inhabits lowland swamps and waterways of the southeastern US. When threatening, it opens its mouth wide to display the white interior. 1
- noun cottonmouth (Uncountable Noun) (medicine) An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs. 0
- noun cottonmouth A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin. 0
- noun cottonmouth A snake, Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead. 0
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Origin of cottonmouth
First appearance:
before 1825 One of the 37% newest English words
1825-35, Americanism; cotton + mouth, so called from the whiteness of its lips and mouth
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Parts of speech for Cottonmouth
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
cottonmouth popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 46% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
cottonmouth usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for cottonmouth
verb cottonmouth
- dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
- drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- sear — to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
- parch — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- desiccate — to remove most of the water from (a substance or material); dehydrate
adj cottonmouth
- thirsty — feeling or having thirst; craving liquid.
- arid — Arid land is so dry that very few plants can grow on it.
- burned — having been cheated in a sale of drugs
- dry as dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
Antonyms for cottonmouth
verb cottonmouth
- soak — to lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid.
- wet — moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands.
- moisten — Wet slightly.
- dampen — To dampen something such as someone's enthusiasm or excitement means to make it less lively or intense.
- hydrate — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
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