Meanings
- not comparableBy, or in terms of, the mouth or mouth-like part.
We can't get Mr. Wideman to eat. […] Explains the options, mouthwise or IVs, folks, and how the mouthwise method is much preferred by doctors, staff, studies, you know.
2022, John Edgar Wideman, You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018, page 2541 more example
A kind of mouse-trap […] woven with string instead of bamboo: it is fastened to a tree mouthwise by a string; the animal comes rushing in and pulls the weaving tight and tighter around itself: […]
1892, David Clement Scott, A Cyclopaedic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language, page 106
- not comparableBy, or in terms of, the mouth or mouth-like part.
We can't get Mr. Wideman to eat. […] Explains the options, mouthwise or IVs, folks, and how the mouthwise method is much preferred by doctors, staff, studies, you know.
2022, John Edgar Wideman, You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018, page 254
Origin
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mouthwise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mouthwise
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