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Jaw   /dʒɔ/   Listen
Jaw

noun
1.
The part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth.
2.
The bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth.
3.
Holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object.
verb
(past & past part. jawed; pres. part. jawing)
1.
Talk socially without exchanging too much information.  Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, shoot the breeze, visit.
2.
Talk incessantly and tiresomely.  Synonyms: rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away.
3.
Chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth.  Synonyms: chew, manducate, masticate.  "Chew your food and don't swallow it!" , "The cows were masticating the grass"
4.
Censure severely or angrily.  Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce.  "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister" , "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"



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"Jaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... nervous alarm, he swore, and, as troopers will swear, that it had descended direct upon his afflicted member, and, consequently that he was ruined for life. This was a subsequent explanation—while the unhappy youth was extended on the hearth-rug, protesting innocence, and also declaring that his jaw-bone was fractured. The fall of the billet and the boy were things simultaneous—and while my mother, in great alarm, inculcated patience under suffering, and hinted at resignation, my father, in return, swore ...
— International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 • Various

... my brother found himself, panting, with a cut mouth, a bruised jaw, and bloodstained knuckles, driving along an unknown lane with these ...
— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells

... type, into the princely line of Judah. The blood of the daring children of the wilderness flowed in the veins of those who descended from Boaz. Just as in modern times and in royal houses a single feature, as a set of the jaw, a curve of the lips, a fulness of the brow or the eye, is stamped upon a race by some marriage of its heir with a strong woman of another race, so, it has always seemed to me, that the poetry, the romance, the fire and ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 • Various

... endowed with the defence of truth and good conduct. I cross the heavens, and traverse the earth. Though a denizen of the underworld, I tread the earth like one alive, following in the footsteps of the blessed spirits. I have the gift of living a million years. I eat with my mouth and chew with my jaw, because I worship him who is ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

... we saw that the dead man's face had been partly shot or shorn away—the lower jaw was gone; so that it had become an abominable thing to look on. These two had been men the day before. Now they were carrion and would be treated as such; for as we looked back we saw the wagon turn off the high road into a field where the wild red ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb


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