tear-mouth

plural tear-mouths

1. obsoleteA blustering, boisterous person.
2. obsoleteactingAn overactor.

   You grow rich, do you, and purchase, you twopenny tear-mouth?

   1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster, act 3, scene 1

   1 more example

   How would you, or how do you think I should, relish being the object of such a letter as Kean wrote t'other day to a poor author, who, though a pedantic blockhead, had at least the right to be treated as a gentleman by a copper-laced two-penny tearmouth, rendered mad by conceit and success?

   1819 April 28, Sir Walter Scott, [Letter to Robert Southey]

comparative more tear-mouth · superlative most tear-mouth

1. obsoleteVociferous.