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make_mouths_at

make mouths at

English

Verb

make mouths at (third-person singular simple present makes mouths at, present participle making mouths at, simple past and past participle made mouths at)

  1. (dated) To make faces at (someone), to fun of (someone), to laugh at someone.
    • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening, page 85:
      She was saucy the next [moment], moving her head up and down, making "eyes" at Robert and making "mouths" at Beaudelet.

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