He who is with his mouth open can be referred to as gaping.
Open-mouthed is an adjective that is used to describe someone whose mouth is open , indicates the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) in the first meaning that mentions the concept. The person with the mouth open , therefore, is gaping.
For example: “To extract the tooth, I need you to remain open-mouthed for several minutes,” “I am open-mouthed because, if I close my mouth, my jaw hurts,” “It is difficult to speak when you have to remain open-mouthed.”
It is important to note that the use of the term bocaierto in situations such as those set out in the previous paragraph is not very common in everyday speech, at least not in all Spanish-speaking regions; In many cases it is normal to resort to the phrase "with your mouth open."
Gape concept
Jaw agape is also said to the subject who is surprised, astonished or stupefied by something : “The singer's cleavage left the presenter speechless” , “The spectators were speechless at the wonderful play of the team captain” , “When discovering that the old man “I had left her a $1,000 tip, the waitress was speechless.”
In this case, the notion of open-mouthed is linked to the expression that an individual's face usually adopts when something leaves him stunned or overwhelmed . The person who is greatly surprised usually opens his mouth without being able to articulate words. He also opens his eyes wide, as if trying to convince himself that what he is seeing is real.
Someone gaping is amazed.
Some examples
Suppose a man is walking down an avenue in his city when he suddenly comes across a naked woman . The strangeness of the situation makes him gape, unable to understand why the girl in question is on public roads without clothes.
If a soccer player punches a teammate in the face, the public present in the stadium will also be speechless at this irrational scene.
As can be seen in the previous examples, the variety of situations that can leave us speechless is very wide, although there are many more, since each person has their own sensitivity, their own interests and this makes what is normal for someone seem strange to others .
Gaping, a common reaction
A detail that we should not miss is that we do not always remain speechless when an unexpected situation presents itself to us; On the contrary, many times we go after those things that leave us astonished, because they generate us a lot of pleasure and we want to experience them again.
For example, lovers of computer generated graphics are always up to date with the latest technological advances in graphics cards and 3D editing and animation programs because they feel the need to see something better than their latest movie or their latest favorite video game. Every time a revolutionary title is announced, even if they come to the news voluntarily, they cannot contain their excitement, they are left speechless.
Of course, it is also possible to react this way when we are faced with a situation that surprises us for negative reasons, that affects us, that hurts us because we did not expect to have to go through something similar. Some of the issues that fall into this group are betrayal, deception and bad news.
Let's look at some examples in which this group of situations is illustrated that can leave us open-mouthed as well as disappointed and sad: a person who receives a dismissal letter for no apparent reason after having worked in a company for two decades; someone who discovers that their partner has been cheating on them for several years; An individual notices that, despite having asked a friend not to tell a secret, he does so and makes it public.