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bad-mouth (v.)
"abuse someone verbally," 1941, probably ultimately from noun phrase
bad mouth
(1835), in Black English, "a curse, spell," translating an idiom found in African and West Indian languages. Related:
Bad-mouthed
;
bad-mouthing
.