mouth-breather

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mouth breather

Someone who is dimwitted, foolish, or stupid; someone of low or stunted intelligence. Used as an insult. That bully is a such a mouth breather, I bet he has the IQ of a rock.

mouth-breather

n. a stupid-acting person. I always end up with a mouth-breather on a blind date.

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You're a mouth breather and the repeated intake of air is drying out your saliva.

Why is my mouth so dry all the time?

The mouth-breathing test: If you can only make a snoring noise with your mouth open then you're a mouth breather.

SEX DOCTOR: ISSUE OF THE WEEK.. END THAT SNORING

Clinical examination revealed that the patient was a mouth breather with hyponasal speech.

Report of an unusual cause of rhinolithiasis: an 'opioma'

You're a mouth breather and the surface of your tongue dries out during the night so that the dead cells on the surface can't be cleared away.

Why is my tongue yellow?

He was a mouth breather with moderately severe retrognathia.

Airway management of the severely retrognathic child: use of the laryngeal mask airway. (Original Article)