MOUTH,
a noisy Fellow. Mouth half cockt, gaping and staring at every Thing they see.
a noisy Fellow. Mouth half cockt, gaping and staring at every Thing they see.
Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Mouth in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).