badmouth

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully. informal,transitive
    — […] those cross-Atlantic aficionados who persistently idolize the British theater and bad-mouth Broadway.

词形变化

badmouths present,singular,third-person badmouthing participle,present badmouthed participle,past badmouthed past bad-mouth alternative

词源

Calque of a Mande term, perhaps Vai [Term?] or Mandinka [Term?], which entered English via Gullah [Term?]. Compare Japanese 悪口(わるぐち) (waruguchi, “badmouthing”), which is a compound of 悪(わる) (waru, “bad, wicked”) and 口(くち) (kuchi, “mouth”).
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