Characterized by evasive, vague, or unclear speech; tending to talk in a way that obscures rather than clarifies.
Compound adjective from flannelmouth plus the -ed suffix, creating an adjective describing someone who speaks in the manner of a flannelmouth.
The adjective flannelmouthed captures how we use body parts plus texture words as insults—like 'loose-lipped' or 'sharp-tongued'—language borrows from fabric and flesh to describe personality and speech patterns.
As an adjective form, inherited the gendered disparagement from 'flannelmouth'; applied pejoratively to women's speech more frequently than men's in historical usage.
Avoid in characterizations of people; use neutral descriptors for speech patterns instead.
["articulate","verbose","talkative"]
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