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English
Etymology
From poor + mouth.
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poormouth (third-person singular simple present poormouths, present participle poormouthing, simple past and past participle poormouthed)
- (transitive, intransitive, informal) To claim to be poor.
1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:On the other hand one does not want to arrive “poor-mouthing it” in some outrageous turtleneck and West Eighth Street bell-jean combination, as if one is “funky” and of “the people.”
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