Splay-mouthed

a. ? Obs. [f. SPLAY v.¹] Having a wide or wry mouth. Also transf.

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1651. Cleveland, Poems, 41. Had I but Elsing’s gift (that splay-mouth’d brother).

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1687. T. Brown, Alsop’s State Conform., Wks. 1711, IV. 119. This is a happiness, crys our splay-mouth’d Tallow-Chandler in a Transport.

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1718. Entertainer, No. 30. 202. The Splay-Mouth’d Covenanters, that Sanctified Crew of Hypocrites.

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1812. Examiner, 13 Sept., 590/1. His vulgar volubility and splay-mouthed pronunciation.

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