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mouth breather

noun

Definitions

  1. A person who routinely inhales and exhales through the mouth, instead of through the nose.

    • Respirations cannot be recorded by this method, if the subject is a mouth breather (as no air flows by the thermistor in the nose).

  2. A person who is boorish, stupid, or otherwise unattractive.

    • She's a philosophy major from Brown, now working retail at Niagara Falls, living in a trailer and working for a "mouth breather" of a boss.

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