She herself or one of the other crofter women of the townland would sing to us the mouth music.

‘Mouth music’ evolved in those parts of the country where poor people had no instruments but still wanted to dance.

Listening to flamenco, or to English Gypsy or Russian Gypsy folk song, or to the “babba-deep-babbaa-doop” mouth music of the Hungarian Roma, one would be hard put to identify a commonality.

I lived both with no belief in a higher power and I lived with a so-called religious belief in a higher power that was purely a dead religion. It was just mouth music.

Saying it applies to the civil service is just mouth music from people out to collect money from civil service employees.

Julia made no reply to that remark; she was enchanted with him, as always, for the things he said, so unexpected, so very much there that she felt what he said was specifically for her, and not just mouth-music, like other grown-ups.

Danny was pretty sure it was only mouth music, just as he was certain that Joseph only stayed under his parents' roof becausee it was cheaper than having a place of his own.

At some point in almost every gay encounter someone will play a little mouth music.

Mouth music

Meaning

Noun