poormouth

Etymology

From poor + mouth.

poormouth means to claim to be poor. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

verb

To claim to be poor.“On the other hand one does not want to arrive “poor-mouthing it” in some outrageous turtleneck and West Eighth Street bell-jean combination, as if one is “funky” and of “the people.””