cotton-mouth
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His son, Danny, explains that Tarkanian began the practice while coaching a high school team that played in a gym so hot it perpetually left Tarkanian with cotton mouth.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2013
When it is all over and the pilot heads back to Thailand, the reaction is almost always the same: a dry, cotton mouth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Of these, we have in our country, besides the rattlesnakes, the water moccasin, or cotton mouth, the copperhead, and the coral snake.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America