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cottonmouth

noun

Etymology

From cotton + mouth.

  1. inherited from mouthen
  2. derived from *ment-✻ — “to chew; jaw, mouth”
  3. inherited from *munþaz✻ — “mouth”
  4. inherited from *munþ✻
  5. inherited from mūþ
  6. inherited from mouth
  7. compounded as cottonmouth — “cotton + mouth”

Definitions

  1. An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs.

  2. A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.

  3. A snake, Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA