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What does open-mouthed mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Talkative, speaking freely.
  2. With the mouth open.
  3. Gaping in surprise, wonder or astonishment.
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Lena simply stared at him across the table, open-mouthed, speechless, to say the least.
No, I was more interested in staring open-mouthed and horrified at the person standing in the doorway to the den.
Any triumphalism, filtered through the eyes of a child, is open-mouthed in its surprise and gratitude.
When he got to the bottom of the stairs and saw what they were doing, he stopped in open-mouthed astonishment.
Yet the tourists' open-mouthed stares did not trouble the good folk of Marken.
At the sight of our caravan of motor vehicles, the locals along the road stopped work and gazed open-mouthed in surprise and amusement.

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