a. Obs. [SPARROW 3.] Having a wide mouth.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Fendu, Bien fendu de gueule, wide-mouthed, sparrow-mouthed, mouthed vp to the eares.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., III. ii. IV. i. (1651), 519. Every Lover admires his Mistress, though she be … squint-eyed, sparrow-mouthed, Persean hook-nosed.
1699. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Sparrow-mouth’d, a Mouth o Heavenly wide, as Sir P. Sidney calls it.
1725. Bailey, Erasm. Colloq. (1878), I. 44. Can you fancy that … Snub-nos’d, Sparrow-mouth’d, Paunch-belly’d Creature?
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulgar T., Sparrow mouth’d, wide mouth’d.
