mouth, n.Definitions

The Mouth is a snare of death.

The Mouth is a hole under a drunkard's nose that all his money runs into.

The Mouth is the only part of oneself that one can 'kiss in the mirror'.

The Mouth is the grocer's friend, the dentist's fortune, the orator's pride and the fool's trap.

The Mouth is the ambiguous locus of two oralities: one articulates the voice, language... the other satisfies a need, the ingestion of food for survival first of all, but also for a pleasure that becomes juxtaposed with the value of nourishment'.

The Mouth is integral to erotic pleasure in the sensual act of eating, as well as in the acts of kissing, licking and sucking.

The Mouth is an useless instrument to some people,-in as far as it renders ideas audible, but of special service for rendering victuals invisible.

The Mouth is a potent symbol of both consumption and its control, combining in the one site sensuality/nature (the tongue and the tastebuds) with rationality/culture (the organ of speech).