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foot-in-mouth disease

foot-in-mouth disease
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [foo t-n-mouth dih-zeez]
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [foo t-n-mouth dih-zeez]

Definitions of foot-in-mouth disease words

  • noun foot-in-mouth disease the habit of making inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent statements. 1
  • noun foot-in-mouth disease (Idiomatic) (humorous) A tendency to make remarks that are embarrassingly wrong or inappropriate. 0
See all 2 definitions of foot-in-mouth disease

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Origin of foot-in-mouth disease

First appearance:

before 1965
One of the 2% newest English words
1965-70; pun on foot-and-mouth disease, with allusion to foot-in-mouth

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Parts of speech for Foot-in-mouth disease

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Foot-in-mouth disease

foot-in-mouth disease popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 1% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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