Broke da mouth

/BROKE dah MOUTH/

Incredibly delicious. So good it breaks your mouth.

The highest food compliment in Hawaii. If your plate lunch stay broke da mouth, it was so good your mouth can't handle it. Used exclusively for food — never for anything else.

Examples

  • Auntie's kalua pork stay broke da mouth.
  • Try dat poke. Broke da mouth.
  • Da loco moco was brok da mout!

Origin

Pidgin English

Alternate spellings

Broke the mouth, Brok da mout

essential food descriptive

Related phrases

Choke

A lot. Tons. Loads of something.

Grinds

Food. A meal. To eat.

Hamajang

Messed up. Broken. All jacked up. A total disaster.

Mean

Awesome. Cool. Really good.

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