mouth breather

參見：mouthbreather 和 mouth-breather

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• mouth-breather, mouthbreather

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mouth breather (複數 mouth breathers)

1. 總是用嘴巴呼吸的人
   • 1967, Nancy J. Barron, "A Ride in the Human Centrifuge," American Journal of Nursing, vol. 67, no. 8, p. 1654,

     Respirations cannot be recorded by this method, if the subject is a mouth breather (as no air flows by the thermistor in the nose).

2. (俗語，俚語，貶義) 鄉巴佬；傻子，呆子；無趣的人
   • 2004 3月 12, Tim Goodman, 「Trinkets are spirit guides in Fox's brilliant 'Wonderfalls'」, 出自 San Francisco Chronicle‎^[1]:

     She's a philosophy major from Brown, now working retail at Niagara Falls, living in a trailer and working for a "mouth breather" of a boss.

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