English

Alternative forms

• bad-mouth

Verb

badmouth ‎(third-person singular simple present badmouths, present participle badmouthing, simple past and past participle badmouthed)

1. (informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
   • 1987 August 30, Benedict Nightingale, Theater: England's Endless Love Affair with Farce, New York Times (retrieved 22 July 2013):

     . . . those cross-Atlantic aficionados who persistently idolize the British theater and bad-mouth Broadway.

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References

1. ↑ “badmouth” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
2. ↑ Smitherman, Geneva (1977), Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin)
3. ↑ The Atlantic World, 1450-2000 (2008, ISBN 0253219434), page 58