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Mouthing vs Biting - What's the difference?

mouthing | biting |

As verbs the difference between mouthing and biting

is that mouthing is present participle of mouth while biting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between mouthing and biting

is that mouthing is the act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language while biting is the action of the verb to bite.

As an adjective biting is

causing a stinging sensation.

mouthing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language.
  • * 2013 , Robert Bayley, ?Richard Cameron, ?Ceil Lucas, The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (page 382)
    • Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).

    biting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to bite .
  • An occurrence of a bite.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing a stinging sensation.
    • a biting wind
  • Cutting or incisive.
    • a biting criticism
  • Tending to bite.
    • a biting insect

    Derived terms

    * bitingly ----