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pi-jaw, n. slang (now arch.).|ˈpaɪdʒɔː|
[f. pi a. (n.) + jaw n.1]
A pious lecture or exhortation, esp. one addressed to schoolboys or young persons by their teachers or parents. Hence ˈpi-jaw v. trans., to lecture or exhort; ˈpi-jawing vbl. n.
1891R. G. K. Wrench Winchester Word-bk. 31 He pi-jawed me for thoking. 1912G. W. E. Russell One Look Back ii. 25 It was his custom..to call us all together.., and give us what we called a ‘Pi-jaw’. 1913Pearson's Mag. June 606/2 There is no suspicion of ‘pi-jaw’ about it. 1922A. S. M. Hutchinson This Freedom iv. iv. 303 You..get me here to pijaw me about my duty to my pretty young wife. 1923Blackw. Mag. Jan. 56/1 He..treated me to the Persian equivalent of a ‘pi-jaw’. 1925M. I. Rogers in Inner Life (ser. 2) xiii. 257 Older children..are more interested in ideas and the way in which things happen. They dislike ‘pi-jaw’. 1930J. Douglas Down Shoe Lane 210 It may be that they yawn over pompous pi-jawing and middle-aged platitudinarianism. 1937G. Frankau More of Us xi. 121 The tortures of a miserable Upper Pi-jawed beyond the sacred hour of supper. 1945G. B. Grundy 55 Yrs. at Oxf. 38 What a boy or young man loathes above all is pi-jaw. |