big-mouthed adj.
1. boastful, self-aggrandizing; thus have a big mouth, to be boastful.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | How A Man May Choose A Good Wife From A Bad Act II: We swaggerers, That liue by oathes and big-mouth’d menaces. | |
| Laugh and Be Fat 13: Let not his thundering big-mouth’d words apall thee. | |
| A New Tricke to Cheat the Divell I ii: Pox upon you, we shall have you turne Puritan, Leave big mouth’d Oaths to sweare by yea and nay. | |
| Cobbett’s Wkly Register 2 July 17/1: A woman who [...] was not found amongst her coarse-skinned, big-mouthed sisters, in the rear ranks of the stews. | |
| Bath Chron. 16 June 3/2: Great and big-mouthed wre the outcries against the hereditary legislators. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Northern Star (RYorks.) 24 May 9/2: He knows that in the House of Commons his big-mouthed eloquence would not be suitable. | |
| Reynolds’s Newspaper 16 Jan. 8/4: The Tories manage matters in a [...] far more liberal spirit than our big-mouthed Radicals. | |
 | Aldershot Military Gaz. 6 Apr. 2/6: ‘Why, I am sure,’ said a big-mouthed braggadocious Captain [...] ‘that I must have looted at least [...] a bagfull of diamonds’. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Stories the Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell (1994) 41: Callin him ‘a damn big mouth son of a bitch’. | |
| Burnley Advertiser 2 Dec. 2/78: The new Ministers feel obliged to go to war, or eat their big-mouthed promises. | |
| Lancaster Daily Intelligencer (PA) 28 Dec. 3/6: The prisoner meanwhile scouled [sic] [...] shouting, ‘You big-mouthed Porter’. | |
| Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 29: ‘Big-mouthed Scotty,’ who could pick a pocket-book [...] about as neatly as anybody. | |
| Pardners (1912) 118: We found him a big-mouthed, shifty, kind of man [...] full of wind as a toad fish. | |
| Salt Lake Herald (UT) 29 Nov. 17/3: I think you were present when she remarked that I have a big mouth. | |
| Dundee, Perth [...] People’s Jrnl 25 Nov. 1/6: [headline] Big-Mouthed Talkers. ‘Deeds Not Words’, the Slogan of today. I argue that big-mouthed talk is ‘off’. | |
| ‘Allen’s Idea of Preachers’ in Nigger to Nigger 201: Moest er dem big-mout’, big-bellied ole bastards is guh bu’s’ hell wide open. | |
| (con. WWI) Wings on My Feet 129: Boys gittin’ ready to play, joreein’ and big-mouth talkin’. | |
| Sister of the Road (1975) 37: Sure, I’ll give you a break, you big-mouthed bastard! | |
| USA 7: USA is a set of big-mouthed officials with too many bank accounts. | |
| Burnley Exp. 19 Feb. 3/1: The crafty, cold-blooded, black-hearted, yellow-livered, bald-headed, big-mouthed, brazen-faced [...] snivelling, twisted Italian. | |
| Jimmy Brockett 54: I know what some of the big-mouthed mugs have been saying. | |
| ‘Match Race’ Aus. First and Last 57: You are just a bigmouth hayseed talker! | |
| ‘Daniel White for the Greater Good’ in Gentleman Junkie 37: . . . the big mouth crowd that hung out in Peerson’s Bowling and Billiard Center. | |
| Bug Jack Barron 31: We take on some big-mouthed dum-dum like Shabazz. | |
| Choirboys (1976) 90: I can take those bigmouth kikes better than niggers. | |
| Straw Boss (1979) 296: That’s my girl, snippy and big-mouthed. | |
| It (1987) 441: You don’t see it because some bigmouth jig bastard filled it up! | |
| Guardian Rev. 25 Mar. 4: The big-headed, big-mouthed Fred. | |
| Our Town 86: ‘He came all the way from Birmingham, Alabama,’ Larry went on, ‘just to hang those stupid big-lipped rughead wide-eyed bigmouth niggers.’. | |
| Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] The bigmouth twin’s name was Billy. |
2. noisy.
| Elgin Courant 8 Jan. 4/2: As if ‘the big-mouthed thunder’ were bellowing through the vast and boundless deep. | |
| Tony Drum 87: ‘Right!’ shouted the big-mouthed ostler. |
3. tell-tale, informing.
| Kent & Sussex Courier 19 Oct. 16/6: He [...] dragged her up and said: ‘You are a — great big-mouthed thing, crying as if you are being murdered’. | |
| ‘Ain’t Going to Give You None’ 🎵 If you was the right sort, I wouldn’t squawk. / But you one of them big-mouth brothers don’t care who you go to to talk. | |
| Scorpions 149: ‘If it wasn’t for people talking on Randy—big-mouth people like you—he wouldn’t even be in jail today’. |