gapemouthed

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1. alternativeAlternative form of gape-mouthed.

   Standing on the big chair, she stuffed them into that gapemouthed fish.

   1993, Susan Malone, By the Book: A Novel, →ISBN, page 101

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   While the rock world seemed generally gapemouthed by the tragedy and the country crowd descended to knee-jerk jingoism, blues artists tried to put the whole horrible business in some sort of perspective.

   2003, Blues Revue - Issues 80-85, page 63

   One showed a gapemouthed cluster of little folks watching a magician pull a white rabbit from a hat.

   2013, Stephen King, Doctor Sleep: A Novel, →ISBN, page 420

   Every time I talk to a woman about some things I am left gapemouthed and wishing terribly that I had a large dog with a heavily callused butt.

   2013, Peter Bowen, The Yellowstone Kelly Novels, →ISBN

   There are no more gapemouthed crocuses, or poppies wide with woe to wreath her fingers; the earth is a hunched and sightless woman, holding herself together with her hair.

   1974, James B. Meriwether, A Faulkner Miscellany, page 23

comparative more gapemouthed · superlative most gapemouthed

1. alternativeAlternative form of gape-mouthed.

   Abreast of the first soldier, he too took in the round collar and halted gapemouthed.

   1984, Fred Saberhagen, Machines That Kill, →ISBN, page 164