mushmouth

mushmouth

slang A person who is not able to speak clearly or properly. Often used humorously or hyperbolically. Sorry, I'm such a mushmouth today—I didn't sleep properly last night, and I'm finding it hard to get my words out the right way. I was kind of a mushmouth as a kid because of a slight speech impediment.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

mushmouth

n. a person who does not or cannot speak clearly. How can a mushmouth like that get a job reading news on network television?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (someone's or something's) days are numbered
  • days are numbered, one's
  • as far as the eye can see
  • as far as the eye can/could see
  • chain (someone or something) to (something)
  • chain to
  • curl up and die
  • everyone and their mother
  • can't get over (something)
  • can't get over something
References in periodicals archive
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* It's sad to see Howard Zinn stoop to peddling such softheaded, mushmouthed, sentimental claptrap.
Letters
A few hours of viewing the newly triumphant Fox News reveals less investigative journalism than punditry unchained: The O'Reilly Factor (self-pitying superstar Bill O'Reilly's "spinfree" hour), Honnity& Colmes (a lib/con face-off/yawn-fest in the classical mode), The Big Story (mushmouthed banalysis by ghoulish MSNBC retread John Gibson), and so on.
Bloviation Nation: Why are we so ashamed that pundits rule? (Culture and Reviews)
These talks are always required to include some mushmouthed exhortation to "write your representatives."
Opinion piece: universal electronic access
She also can convey a pretty wide range of the emotions you'd expect a gorgeous, mushmouthed, intellectually incurious 19-year-old to feel.
Stealing Beauty