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Southing vs Mouthing - What's the difference?

southing | mouthing |

As nouns the difference between southing and mouthing

is that southing is (nautical) a distance traveled southward while mouthing is the act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language.

As a verb mouthing is

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southing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) A distance traveled southward.
  • (astronomy) The time when the moon souths.

    • Anagrams

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    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).