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Jawed

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Having a jaw or jaws, especially of a specified kind. Often used in combination: slack-jawed; the jawed fishes.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. having jaws

adj. having a specified type of jaw

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Having jaws; -- chiefly in composition.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Having jaws; having jaws of a specified kind: as, heavy-jawed.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of animals having jaws of a specified type

Word Usage

"Men began to say that he 'jawed' too much and would not let them go to bed, little knowing how he used to try to prolong a conversation so that he might not be left alone with a horrible fear always ready to pounce upon him when night fell, and when only the thud of the engines playing some maddening tune broke the silence."

Equivalent

long-jawed square-jawed

Verb Stem

jaw

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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