jawn.¹

Brit.

/dʒɔː/, U.S.

/dʒɔ/,

/dʒɑ/

Forms: α. Middle English iow, Middle English–1500s iowe; β. Middle English–1600s iawe, 1600s– jaw; (Middle English geaw, gowe, gew, 1600s gagh).

Etymology: A word of difficult etymology, on the origin of which the evidence known to us affords conflicting indications. It occurs in the form jow(e from c1375; c1483 we find jaw(e , which before long superseded jowe ; from 1530 to c1675 there was a collateral chaw n.¹ Chaucer rhymed jowe with clowe (= jaw, claw), which shows that the sound was not /uː/, and thus that the word was not the French joue cheek. If, notwithstanding the want of evidence, and in spite of the late exemplification of ch forms in chaw(e , it may be assumed that jowe was preceded by a Middle English *chowe , representing an unrecorded Old English *céowe , ceówe weak feminine, this would be identical with Old High German kiuwa , chiuwa , early Middle High German chiwe , chouwe , Middle High German kiuwe , couwe , early modern and dialect German keu , käu , koie (Grimm); Middle Dutch couwe , Kilian kouwe , keeuwe , Dutch kieuw ; going back to Old Germanic *kewwôn , derivative of kewwan to chew v. The later chawe , jawe would then be parallel to modern German kaue , Middle Dutch cauwe , Kilian kauwe , and to German kauen , Dutch kauwen , 16th cent. English chaw v., beside Old High German kiuwan , Middle High German kiuwen , Middle Dutch kouwen , and Old English céowan chew v., the phonetic relations of which are not clearly settled. The spelling with j may have been influenced by association with French joue cheek; though the frequent passage of ch into j in other words shows that this need not be assumed. Compare the phonetic development of Old English céafl , Middle English chavel , chaul , chol , chowl , jowl n.¹: also Marston's jawn for chawn n. and chawn v.

a. One of the bones (or sets of bones) forming the framework of the mouth, and the seizing, biting, or masticating apparatus of vertebrates; in singular more frequently the lower or under (†nether) jaw, the inferior maxillary or mandible, than the upper (†over) jaw, or superior maxillary; cf. jawbone n.The dropping or falling of the jaw is a mark of death, dejection, or chagrin: see jaw-fallen adj. and n., chop-fallen adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > jawbones

jaw1382

jawbone1490

maxillary1826

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > jaws > [noun] > lower

lower or under (nether) jaw1509

under-chap1584

under-jaw1687

chap1830

α.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges xv. 16 In the cheek boon of an asse, that is, in the iow of the colt of assis, I haue doon hem awey.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xvi. 121 The Cocadryll meuyth the ouer Iowe [Bodley MS. þe ouer gowe] ayenste kynde of all other beestes and holdyth the nether Iowe [Bodley MS. þe neþir iowe] still and meuyth it not.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 2 He had a grete hede large vysage longe Iowes.

1486 Bk. St. Albans C vij a For booches that growe in a hawkis Iowe.

β. c1450 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. (Bodl.) v. xlii No beeste haþ an euen gut but he haue teeþ in ayþer iawe.1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xliii. 210 Dyd not kyng Davyd a lyons jawe tere?1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 270 The bullet hitting him under his right iawe.1611 Bible (King James) Job xli. 2 Canst thou..bore his iawe through with a thorne? 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 218 Their teeth are..numerous, and..perfectly inoffensive: they lie in either jaw.a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III i, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 238/2 There was a silent chasm Between his upper jaw and under.1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxx. 528 The jaw fell, and the eyes were fixed.

b. The parts of certain invertebrates used for the ingestion of food.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > equivalent of the mouth

mouthOE

oscule1835

jaw1870

1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. 163 The Medicinal Leech (Sanguisuga officinalis)..has its mouth furnished with three crescentic jaws.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals i. 56 In the Arthropoda, what are usually termed jaws are modified limbs.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 696/1 The jaws of Peripatus are formed by the axis or corm itself.

1932 L. A. Borradaile & F. A. Potts Invertebrata xviii. 567 The lantern [of echinoids] consists of five composite jaws, each clasping a tooth.

1971 J. E. Smith et al. Invertebr. Panorama iv. 55 The gut [of leeches] has a muscularized blood-sucking pharynx often armed with piercing jaws.

2. In plural. The bones and associated structures of the mouth including the teeth, regarded as instruments of prehension, crushing, and devouring; hence, the cavity formed by these parts; the mouth, fauces, throat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > jaws > [noun]

jawsc1374

chaps1555

chops1589

masticator1681

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > jaws > [noun]

rakeeOE

jowlOE

jawsc1374

chafta1400

chop?a1513

chaw1530

chop1615

masticator1681

α.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. pr. iv. 9 Yit drowh I hym owt of the Iowwes of hem þat gapeden.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) (1495) xvii. xxiii It abateþ swellynge of iowes [L. tumorem faucium sedat] and helpeþ woundes of þe longes.

c1450 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 29 To enbrace [v.r. enboce] þi iowis with breed, it is not dewe; with ful mouþ speke not lest þou do offence.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 195/1 There apperyd on hir no sygne of lyf sauf that hyr Iowes were a lytel reed.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xiii. 69 With ane hydduus wolfis gapand iowis.

β. c1483 Chaucer's H. Fame (Caxton) iii. 696 Euyl thryft come on your Iawes [rhyme clawes; Fairf. and Bodl. MSS. Iowes, -ys, clowes, -ys].1573 G. Gascoigne Voy. to Holland in Hearbes At last the Dutche with butter bitten iawes..Gan aunswere thus.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk6 The hungry Spaniells..With greedy iawes her ready for to teare.1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 69 Many haue had the victory snatcht (as it were) out of their iawes,..for not making a..bridge for the..enemy to passe over.1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 103 [No] form..discern'd but sparkling eyes and flaming jaws.1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 147 From his wide Jaws His Tongue unmoisten'd hangs.

3. transferred chiefly in plural. The two sides of a narrow pass, fissure, gorge, or channel; the narrow ‘mouth’ or entrance into a valley, gulf, or sea; the fauces or entrance into the ‘throat’ of a flower, etc.

ΘΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > mouth or orifice > sides of

jawa1387

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 167 Cesariensis, þat haþ..in þe west þe ryuer Malua, and in þe norþ þe gewes of þe grete see.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 404 Being commanded by Cæsar to guard the iawes of the Adriaticke gulph.

1654 F. W. Observ. in Fulke's Meteors (new ed.) 165 The Ground perhaps open with those inundations, and the Gold fall into the gaping jaws of the Earth, and so stick there.

1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 395 Faux, the Jaws gaping between the Divisions of the Corollæ, where the Tube terminates.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake v. 194 The guide, abating of his pace, Led slowly through the pass's jaws.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xiv. 227 The ridge that formed the southern jaw of the chasm.

1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Byways i. 4 The torrent, foaming down between black jaws of rain-stained granite.

4. plural. Applied to the seizing or holding members of a machine or apparatus, arranged in pairs, and usually capable of an opening and closing movement; spec. Nautical the semicircular, concave, or forked end of a boom or gaff which clasps the mast with its projecting ends or ‘horns’.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > other parts

neck?a1425

buttc1425

cheek1487

wing1577

face1601

ear1678

wood1683

strig1703

thumb-piece1760

jaws1789

crown1796

lug1833

sprig1835

point angle1869

bulb1885

nosepiece1983

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > spars used to extend head of sail > jaws fitting round mast

hornsa1825

jaws1836

1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 209 Bringing the jaws of the cap to embrace the stern-post.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 370 The end of the paper is at that time lying even with the extremity of the teeth i i, and the jaws of the tongs closing immediately that the rod j is put in motion.

1830 E. S. N. Campbell Dict. Mil. Sci. 39 Cock, that part of a musquet lock which sustains the two pieces of iron, called jaws, between which the flint is fixed.

1836 F. Marryat Pirate viii, in Pirate & Three Cutters 75 The jaws of the main-gaff were severed.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 421 Krom's laboratory crusher..In this machine (unlike any other) both jaws oscillate on centers, fixed some distance from the crushing faces.

1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic 238 The joiner's vice..is furnished with 9 in. jaws to open 12 in.

5. figurative (in plural) The seizing action or capacity of any devouring agency, as death, time, etc.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by some hostile or injurious agency > seizing capacity of Hell, death, danger, etc.

jaw1561

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. f. 50^v He knoweth himself to be deliuered out of the iawes of death.

1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induction xxxii And first within the portche and iawes of Hell.

c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxx. iii The graves moist hungry jawes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 116 To winne renowne Euen in the iawes of danger, and of death.

1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 41 Mustering of men in this case, was but casting away so many into the Gaghs of Death.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 16 Which great strength has preserv'd it thus long from the jaws of time.

1746 G. Berkeley Second Let. Tar-water §12 Many patients might thereby be rescued from the jaws of death.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade ii, in Maud & Other Poems 152 Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred.

1886 R. Broughton (1899) Dr. Cupid xxvi. 254 And as for him, poor little fellow, I cannot bear to be unkind to him, when he is only just out of the jaws of death.

1941 Life 20 Oct. 31/3 They ride the bitter-cold night skies for as long as twelve hours and methodically go into the jaws of death to do their job.

1994 High May 49/2 Suddenly my fevered mind has seemed to be looking into the jaws of death itself.

6. Vulgar loquacity; esp. ‘cheeky’ or impudent talk; also, colloquial, a talk, a speech, a lecture, an address; a long talk, incessant chatter. Frequent in the phrases to hold or stop one's jaw (where the sense may at first have been literal, as in to open, loose, or work one's jaws: cf. also to hold one's tongue).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun]

overspeecheOE

tongue-itch1540

multiloquy1542

long tongue1557

garrulity1581

slipperiness1589

polylogy1602

volubility1602

loquacity1603

lubricity1603

tonguiness1607

overspeakinga1610

talkativeness1609

philology1623

tongue-vice1628

glibness1633

futility1640

linguacity1656

garrulousness1727

linguosity1727

loquaciousness1727

multiloquiousness1727

jaw1748

multiloquence1760

flippancy1789

verbal diarrhoea1808

magpiety1832

big mouth1834

pleniloquence1838

chattiness1876

open-mouthedness1883

gabbiness1887

garrulance1890

irreticence1919

talkiness1934

ear-bashing1945

mee-mawing1974

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech

sauce malapert1529

petulancea1652

jaw1748

snash1786

slack-jaw1797

slang1805

gob1807

lip1821

cheek1825

slack1825

sass1841

back-talk1858

back sass1883

mouth1891

slack lip1899

back-chat1901

chin1902

slop1952

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat

confabulationc1450

device1490

chat1573

tittle-tattle?c1640

small talk1650

confab1701

chit-chat1710

jaw1748

small-talking1786

prose1787

rap1787

coze1804

talky-talky1812

clack1813

chit-chatting1823

cozey1837

gossip1849

mardlea1852

yarn1857

conflab1873

chinwag1879

chopsing1879

cooze1880

chatting1884

schmoozing1884

talky-talk1884

pitch1888

schmooze1895

coosy1903

wongi1929

yap1930

kibitz1931

natter1943

old talk1956

jaw-jaw1958

yacking1959

ole talk1964

rapping1967

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > vulgar or cheeky

jaw1748

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter

chirma800

clappingc1386

glavera1400

clapa1420

clackc1440

blabc1460

clattera1500

babble?a1525

babblery1532

pratery1533

clitter-clatter1535

by-talk?1551

prattle1555

prittle-prattle1556

twittle-twattle1565

cacquet1567

prate?1574

prattlement1579

babblement1595

gibble-gabble1600

gabble1602

twattlea1639

tolutiloquence1656

pratement1657

gaggle1668

leden1674

cackle1676

twit-twat1677

clash1685

chit-chat1710

chatter-chitter1711

chitter-chatter1712

palavering1732

hubble-bubble1735

palaver1748

rattle1748

gum1751

mag1778

gabber1780

gammon1781

gash1787

chattery1789

gabber1792

whitter-whatter1805

yabble1808

clacket1812

talky-talky1812

potter1818

yatter1827

blue streak1830

gabblement1831

psilologya1834

chin-music1834

patter1841

jaw1842

chatter1851

brabble1861

tongue-work1866

yacker1882

talkee1885

chelp1891

chattermag1895

whitter1897

burble1898

yap1907

clatfart1913

jive1928

logorrhœa1935

waffle1937

yackety-yacking1953

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

motormouth1976

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. iii. 15 None of your jaw, you swab,..else I shall trim your laced jacket for you.

1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 17 Hold your Jaw and dispatch.

a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 58 Let's have no more of your jaw!

1800 Ld. Metcalfe in Fortn. Rev. (1885) June 757 Tremendous jaw from my tutor.

1836 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 94 A rich jaw between..Read and Buckle, who met afloat after a previous quarrel.

1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet ii, in New Monthly Mag. June 272 Parliamentary jabber and jaw.

1842 F. J. Furnivall in F. J. Furnivall: Personal Rec. (1911) p. xi Had a jaw with Young, which ended, as it began, in nothing.

1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 123/1 Jaw, abusive language.

1861 D. G. Rossetti Lett. (1965) II. 387 We would go to a theatre afterwards or else have a jaw here.

1868 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) I. 354 When they talk of right and law, we bid them hold their jaw.

1888 D. C. Murray in Illustr. London News Christmas No. 11/2 So long as a man has the sense to hold his jaw at the right time.

1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion i. 115 Come with me now and lets have a jaw over some supper.

1964 Guardian 2 Mar. 7/6 So before the show starts the promoter gives me a bit of a jaw.

a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) viii. 79 He invited the two of us into the billiard-room of Grafton House..for a ‘jaw’.

1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Apr. 420/3 Without these things, committee work is just endless jaw and empty substitute.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

jaw-arch n.

1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man II. xviii. 111 The foremost of these pairs of gill-arches changes into the jaw-arch which gives rise to the upper and lower jaws.

jaw-break n.

1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago 311 His chin fell on his chest, as by jaw-break.

jaw-calipers n.

1900 Animal World XXXI. 18/2 They [larvæ of Libellula] then advance..until within half an inch of their prey, when out shoot the jaw-calipers, and the object is seized.

jaw-chasm n.

1880 G. Meredith Egoist II. 105 The gaping jaw-chasm of his greed.

jaw-forceps n.

1900 Animal World XXXI. 18/2 The snatch of their jaw-forceps is so quick it takes good eyesight to see it.

jaw-gape n.

1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 11 Lyrical on into death's red roaring jaw-gape.

jaw-line n.

1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xiv. 144 Perhaps his jaw-line was a little tenser.

1971 Chatelaine Aug. 41/2 Tweezing stragglers over nose bridge and applying tawny blusher from brows to jawline livened her skin and slimmed her face.

jaw-man n.

1894 A. Conan Doyle Round Red Lamp 203 He was himself a jawman, ‘a mere jawman’, as he modestly puts it, but in point of fact he [a surgeon] is too young..to confine himself to a specialty.

jaw-muscle n.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 301 In effort of any sort, contractions of the jaw-muscles and of those of respiration are added to those of the brow and glottis.

1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 140 My jaw-muscles getting numb.

jaw-opening n.

1958 E. Fischer-Jørgensen in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 131/2 Slow jaw-opening might rather be combined with a fortis-lenis difference.

jaw-sheath n.

1875 T. H. Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 770/1 [The] horny jaw-sheaths [of Siren] might be compared to those of the Anuran tadpole.

jaw-work n.

1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. 166 Come, come..no more of your jaw-work here.

1802 Morn. Her. in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1803) VI. 29 An event..conducive to jaw-work in every sense of the word.

jaw-bearing adj.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 700/1 The mandibular somite..is followed by two jaw-bearing somites (maxillary and labial).

jaw-cracking adj.

1883 Illustr. London News 8 Dec. 551/1 (Farmer) Such jaw-cracking jokes.

jaw-cutting adj.

1902 P. Marshall Metal Working Tools 45 Adjustable Jaw-Cutting Nippers.

jaw-locked adj.

1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun III. 130 Their tongues..were, for some minutes, jaw-locked, after beholding this dismal portent.

jaw-tied adj.

1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. 75 My jaw-ty'd tongue no speech could lend.

C2.

jaw-bit n. U.S. Engineering a bar which holds together the bases of the two projections of a pedestal (or axle guard), below the journal-box.

ΚΠ

1879 Car Builders' Cycl. Amer. Pract. 91/1 Jaw-bit, a bar extending across the mouth of a jaw underneath a journal-box and bolted to the horns of the pedestal.

1889 Cent. Dict. Jaw-bit, a short bar placed beneath a journal box to unite the two pedestals in a car-truck.

1906 Car Builder's Dict. at Pedestal The two projections of a pedestal are called pedestal horns, and the space between them a jaw, which is closed at the bottom by a Jaw Bit.

jaw-chuck n. a chuck in a lathe furnished with jaws for seizing an object.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > part holding work

mandrel1664

chock1665

pike1680

centre plate1717

carrier1733

chuck1806

screw chuck1827

grip-knob1833

faceplate1837

surface chuck1842

jaw-chuck1874

turning-carrier1877

screw worm chuck1881

steady1885

roller steady1911

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 549/1 [In figure] k is an independent jaw chuck.

jaw-clonus n. spasmodic contraction of the muscles of the mouth when a blow is struck on the lower jaw as it hangs down.

1908 Practitioner June 762 A jaw-clonus is often a distinctive feature [in progressive muscular atrophy].

jaw clutch n. a claw clutch or a dog clutch.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > parts which provide power > [noun] > clutches

bayonet1798

clutch1814

gland1825

friction-clutch1842

disc clutch1859

shifter1869

cone-clutch1874

clutch-box1875

jaw clutch1893

plate clutch1906

band clutch1910

single-plate clutch1926

1893 Langmaid & Gaisford Elem. Less. Steam Machinery vi. 62 A common form of this fitting is the jaw clutch.

1907 Daily Chron. 11 Nov. 7/3 When the change-speed lever is pushed away from the driver, the jaw clutch engages the low gear wheels.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 927/1 A clutch of this description can be made to engage without difficulty, there being no fixed positions or steps such as one associates with the ordinary jaw-clutch.

1936 W. Staniar Mech. Power Transmission Handbk. vii. 267 Jaw Clutches.—This type of clutch is employed for moderate and heavy rough driving... It consists of a square or spiral jaw portion which is keyed to the driving shaft and a sleeve portion equipped with square or spiral jaws into which the driving portion can be engaged. With this type of clutch..the pick-up is instantaneous, resulting therefore in shock.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) III. 224/1 Although square jaw clutches are the strongest and most elementary to construct, the difficulty of engagement limits their use... A modification..to permit more convenient engagement and to provide a more gradual movement of the mating faces toward each other produces the spiral jaw clutch.

jaw-crusher n. Mining an ore-crushing machine similar to the jaw-breaker.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for crushing ore

stamping-mill1552

bucker1653

buck1683

stamp-mill1752

Ball stamp1860

jaw-breaker1877

jaw-crusher1877

spaller1877

arrastre1881

trapiche1881

gravitation stamp1894

ball mill1895

gravity stamp1903

slugger1903

tube-mill1909

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 421 A similar manner to that in which the jaw-crusher operates so effectually on large pieces of ore.

jaw-foot n. = foot-jaw n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > mouth-like appendage

maxilla1798

foot-jaw1828

maxilliped1846

masticatory foot1852

mouth organ1863

gnathite1870

jaw-foot1871

gnathobase1881

jaw-process1881

malipede1883

1871 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 4) xiv. 422 The term jaw-feet has now, by common consent, become the appellation by which they are distinguished.

1883 A. Wilson in Longman's Mag. II. 48 The curious jaws, jaw-feet, and legs of the armoured crustacean.

jaw-footed adj. provided with a jaw-foot.

jaw-jerk n. Medicine a jerk (jerk n.¹ 3a) of the lower jaw elicited by a downward blow on it when the mouth is open.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > reactions to tests

red reflex1864

jaw-jerk1886

pseudoreaction1897

Weil–Felix reaction1919

Schultz–Charlton1922

Kolmer–Wassermann1925

Prausnitz–Küstner1929

1886 A. de Watteville in Brain 8 518 It does not appear to be generally known that a ‘jaw-jerk’ can be readily elicited... The phenomenon is clearly of the same nature as that of the ‘knee-jerk’, and is due to the sudden stretching of the masseter and other muscles of mastication. Hence the name I have ventured to give to it, in preference to the longer and less accurate term mandibular (or masseteric) tendon-reaction (or reflex).

1906 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 4) s.v. Reflex Jaw-jerk reflex, clonic contraction of the inferior maxilla and other muscles of mastication.

1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxiv. 12/2 This jerk [sc. the knee jerk] is one of a whole family of tendon jerks... They include the Achilles tendon or ankle jerk..the biceps and triceps jerks,..and the masseter-temporalis or jaw jerk.

Categories »

jaw-lever n. a veterinary instrument for opening the mouth and administering medicine to cattle (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858).

jaw-piece n. Architecture †(a) = jowpy n.; (b) (see quot. 1886).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > cornice > types of

jowpy1374

severon table1412

jowl-piece1533

jaw-piece1548

vaws-cornice1688

Welsh cornice1792

angel cornice1815

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiij^v The iawe pece of thesaid selyng: whiche pece was guilte with fine Golde.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clvi^v The Iawe peces and crestes were karued wyth Vinettes and trailes of sauage worke, and richely gilted with gold and Bise.

1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 283 A ‘jaw-piece’ or triangular piece of wood..interposed between [the principal] itself and the spars forming the roof.

jaw-process n. = gnathobase n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > mouth-like appendage

maxilla1798

foot-jaw1828

maxilliped1846

masticatory foot1852

mouth organ1863

gnathite1870

jaw-foot1871

gnathobase1881

jaw-process1881

malipede1883

1881 E. R. Lankester in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. Apr. 348 Of the six endites the proximal is somewhat isolated and pushed towards the middle line... It is a jaw process, and may be spoken of as the ‘gnathobase’.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 697/1 The usual uni-ramose limb found in the various classes of Arthropoda..varies as to the presence or absence of the jaw-process.

jaw-rope n. Nautical the rope which fastens the two horns or prongs of the boom or gaff round the mast.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope fastening jaws of gaff

jaw-rope1834

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiii. 163 I..disengaged the jaw-rope and small gear about the mast.

1886 F. H. H. Guillemard Cruise Marchesa I. 230 The jaw-rope had carried away.

jawsmith n. (also jaw-smith) U.S. slang a talkative person; esp. a loud-mouthed demagogue.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person

chaterestrea1250

jangler1303

babbler1366

blabbererc1375

jangleressc1386

talkerc1386

clatterer1388

cacklera1400

languager1436

carperc1440

mamblerc1450

praterc1500

jackdaw?1520

chewet1546

flibbertigibbet1549

clatterfart1552

patterer1552

piec1557

long tongue?1562

prattler1567

piet1574

twattler1577

brawler1581

nimble-chops1581

pratepie1582

roita1585

whittera1585

full-mouth1589

interprater1591

chatterer1592

pianet1594

bablatrice1595

parakeet1598

Bow-bell cockney1600

prattle-basket1602

bagpipe1603

worder1606

babliaminy1608

chougha1616

gabbler1624

blatterer1627

magpie1632

prate-apace1636

rattlea1637

clack1640

blateroon1647

overtalker1654

prate-roast1671

prattle-box1671

babelard1678

twattle-basket1688

mouth1699

tongue-pad1699

chatterista1704

rattler1709

morologist1727

chatterbox1774

palaverer1788

gabber1792

whitter-whatter1805

slangwhanger1807

nash-gab1816

pump1823

windbag1827

big mouth1834

gasbag1841

chattermag1844

tattle-monger1848

rattletrap1850

gasser1855

mouth almighty1864

clucker1869

talky-talky1869

gabster1870

loudmouth1870

tonguester1871

palaverista1873

mag1876

jawsmith1887

spieler1894

twitterer1895

yabbler1901

wordster1904

poofter1916

blatherer1920

ear-bender1922

burbler1923

woofer1934

ear-basher1944

motormouth1955

yacker1960

yammerer1978

jay-

1887 Chicago Tribune 13 May 5/2 George Schilling, Socialist and jawsmith.

1910 Sat. Evening Post 2 July 13/3 ‘Hot-air artists’ was a phrase uncoined; the farmer called them ‘jawsmiths’.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §422 Talker,..jawsmith (esp. a public speaker).

jaw-spring n. U.S. a journal spring.

ΚΠ

1879 Car Builders' Cycl. Amer. Pract. 92/1 Jaw-spring, a Journal-spring, which see.

1889 Cent. Dict. Jaw-spring, a journal-spring.

jaw-tackle n. slang the muscles of the jaws; the mouth, etc., as employed in talking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [noun] > muscles of jaws

masseter1578

grinder1615

grinder-tongue muscles1615

temporalis muscle1676

digastric1696

pterygoid muscle1732

pterygoid1828

jaw-tackle1831

masseteric1836

1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. 290 Van would have countermanded this, had I not clapped my hand as a stopper on his jaw-tackle.

1884 Bread-winners 210 He had never worked a muscle in his life except his jaw-tackle.

jaw-wedge n. U.S. a wedge used to tighten the axle-box in the axle-guard of a railway truck.

ΚΠ

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Jaw-wedge, a wedge to tighten the axle-box in an axle-guard.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1212/1 Jaw-wedge, a wedge to tighten the axle-box in the jaw or guard of a railway car-truck.

Draft additions June 2003

jaw-dropper n. an astonishing, amazing, or awe-inspiring person or thing; something likely to cause a person's jaw to drop.

1984 EPCOT Center in net.travel (Usenet newsgroup) 25 Sept. I find these block-long monsters that chew the heck out of nature in the icy North Sea or the frozen tundra real jawdroppers that go a long way to upstage the dinosaurs.

1994 Sports Illustr. (Electronic ed.) 11 Apr. The shot that lifted North Carolina to a 60-59 victory and its first national women's basketball title was a jaw-dropper, even for a team whose outrageously gifted athletes found a different way to win all six of its games in the tournament.

2002 Focus May 82/1 Even without the shock of the timeless jaw-dropper of an ending, The Usual Suspects SE is one of the most eagerly anticipated DVD releases ever.

Draft additions June 2003

jaw-dropping adj. astonishing, amazing, awe-inspiring, shocking; such as causes a person's jaw to drop.

1900 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 11 Aug. 9/3 Scientific men..have learned that ‘it is estimated’..authorizes them to tell with impunity the most jaw dropping, eye bulging whoppers.

1962 J. J. Kilpatrick Southern Case for School Desegregation i. 66 Myrdal then paints a picture of the South no Southerner would recognize... A jaw-dropping example of the strange fabrications that have made Myrdal's work notorious.

1980 Washington Post 9 May e7/6 It is, as AFI theater director Michael Clark notes, ‘truly a jaw-dropping motion picture’.

1997 XL for Men Aug. 16/3 You're brought back to earth by the Land Rover slowing down, so there's no control on your part... It's a jaw-dropping experience.

Draft additions June 2003

jaw-droppingly adv.

1987 Washington Post 22 Mar. (Mag.) 25/1 Even by Dinka standards, however, 7 feet, 6 inches is jaw-droppingly tall.

2002 Cheshire Life Aug. 164 The jaw-droppingly expensive wine list included a splendid..burgundy at £2,000.

Draft additions June 2003

Jaws of Life n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a proprietary name for) a hydraulic apparatus used to free accident victims from wreckage.

ΚΠ

1973 San Francisco Chron. 9 Jan. 5/1 The tools, known as ‘Jaws of Life’ are like big pliers. Hydraulically operated, they can be used to pry apart cars and other vehicles in which people are trapped.

1989 C. Hiaasen Skin Tight (1990) x. 107 The second thing every noncomatose accident victim saw (after the Jaws of Life) was Kipper Garth's phone number in nine-foot red letters.

2002 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) 10 Jan. b6/3 Rescue crews used a Jaws of Life device to get Fallie out of her wrecked car.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	jaw
释义	jawn.¹ Brit. /dʒɔː/, U.S. /dʒɔ/, /dʒɑ/ Forms: α. Middle English iow, Middle English–1500s iowe; β. Middle English–1600s iawe, 1600s– jaw; (Middle English geaw, gowe, gew, 1600s gagh). Etymology: A word of difficult etymology, on the origin of which the evidence known to us affords conflicting indications. It occurs in the form jow(e from c1375; c1483 we find jaw(e , which before long superseded jowe ; from 1530 to c1675 there was a collateral chaw n.¹ Chaucer rhymed jowe with clowe (= jaw, claw), which shows that the sound was not /uː/, and thus that the word was not the French joue cheek. If, notwithstanding the want of evidence, and in spite of the late exemplification of ch forms in chaw(e , it may be assumed that jowe was preceded by a Middle English chowe , representing an unrecorded Old English céowe , ceówe weak feminine, this would be identical with Old High German kiuwa , chiuwa , early Middle High German chiwe , chouwe , Middle High German kiuwe , couwe , early modern and dialect German keu , käu , koie (Grimm); Middle Dutch couwe , Kilian kouwe , keeuwe , Dutch kieuw ; going back to Old Germanic kewwôn , derivative of kewwan* to chew v. The later chawe , jawe would then be parallel to modern German kaue , Middle Dutch cauwe , Kilian kauwe , and to German kauen , Dutch kauwen , 16th cent. English chaw v., beside Old High German kiuwan , Middle High German kiuwen , Middle Dutch kouwen , and Old English céowan chew v., the phonetic relations of which are not clearly settled. The spelling with j may have been influenced by association with French joue cheek; though the frequent passage of ch into j in other words shows that this need not be assumed. Compare the phonetic development of Old English céafl , Middle English chavel , chaul , chol , chowl , jowl n.¹: also Marston's jawn for chawn n. and chawn v. 1. a. One of the bones (or sets of bones) forming the framework of the mouth, and the seizing, biting, or masticating apparatus of vertebrates; in singular more frequently the lower or under (†nether) jaw, the inferior maxillary or mandible, than the upper (†over) jaw, or superior maxillary; cf. jawbone n.The dropping or falling of the jaw is a mark of death, dejection, or chagrin: see jaw-fallen adj. and n., chop-fallen adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > jawbones jaw1382 jawbone1490 maxillary1826 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > jaws > [noun] > lower lower or under (nether) jaw1509 under-chap1584 under-jaw1687 chap1830 α. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges xv. 16 In the cheek boon of an asse, that is, in the iow of the colt of assis, I haue doon hem awey. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xvi. 121 The Cocadryll meuyth the ouer Iowe [Bodley MS. þe ouer gowe] ayenste kynde of all other beestes and holdyth the nether Iowe [Bodley MS. þe neþir iowe] still and meuyth it not. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 2 He had a grete hede large vysage longe Iowes. 1486 Bk. St. Albans C vij a For booches that growe in a hawkis Iowe. β. c1450 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. (Bodl.) v. xlii No beeste haþ an euen gut but he haue teeþ in ayþer iawe.1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xliii. 210 Dyd not kyng Davyd a lyons jawe tere?1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 270 The bullet hitting him under his right iawe.1611 Bible (King James) Job xli. 2 Canst thou..bore his iawe through with a thorne? View more context for this quotation1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 218 Their teeth are..numerous, and..perfectly inoffensive: they lie in either jaw.a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III i, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 238/2 There was a silent chasm Between his upper jaw and under.1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxx. 528 The jaw fell, and the eyes were fixed. b. The parts of certain invertebrates used for the ingestion of food. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > equivalent of the mouth mouthOE oscule1835 jaw1870 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. 163 The Medicinal Leech (Sanguisuga officinalis)..has its mouth furnished with three crescentic jaws. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals i. 56 In the Arthropoda, what are usually termed jaws are modified limbs. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 696/1 The jaws of Peripatus are formed by the axis or corm itself. 1932 L. A. Borradaile & F. A. Potts Invertebrata xviii. 567 The lantern [of echinoids] consists of five composite jaws, each clasping a tooth. 1971 J. E. Smith et al. Invertebr. Panorama iv. 55 The gut [of leeches] has a muscularized blood-sucking pharynx often armed with piercing jaws. 2. In plural. The bones and associated structures of the mouth including the teeth, regarded as instruments of prehension, crushing, and devouring; hence, the cavity formed by these parts; the mouth, fauces, throat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > jaws > [noun] jawsc1374 chaps1555 chops1589 masticator1681 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > jaws > [noun] rakeeOE jowlOE jawsc1374 chafta1400 chop?a1513 chaw1530 chop1615 masticator1681 α. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. pr. iv. 9 Yit drowh I hym owt of the Iowwes of hem þat gapeden. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) (1495) xvii. xxiii It abateþ swellynge of iowes [L. tumorem faucium sedat] and helpeþ woundes of þe longes. c1450 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 29 To enbrace [v.r. enboce] þi iowis with breed, it is not dewe; with ful mouþ speke not lest þou do offence. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 195/1 There apperyd on hir no sygne of lyf sauf that hyr Iowes were a lytel reed. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xiii. 69 With ane hydduus wolfis gapand iowis. β. c1483 Chaucer's H. Fame (Caxton) iii. 696 Euyl thryft come on your Iawes [rhyme clawes; Fairf. and Bodl. MSS. Iowes, -ys, clowes, -ys].1573 G. Gascoigne Voy. to Holland in Hearbes At last the Dutche with butter bitten iawes..Gan aunswere thus.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. viii. sig. Kk6 The hungry Spaniells..With greedy iawes her ready for to teare.1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 69 Many haue had the victory snatcht (as it were) out of their iawes,..for not making a..bridge for the..enemy to passe over.1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 103 [No] form..discern'd but sparkling eyes and flaming jaws.1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 147 From his wide Jaws His Tongue unmoisten'd hangs. 3. transferred chiefly in plural. The two sides of a narrow pass, fissure, gorge, or channel; the narrow ‘mouth’ or entrance into a valley, gulf, or sea; the fauces or entrance into the ‘throat’ of a flower, etc. ΘΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > mouth or orifice > sides of jawa1387 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 167 Cesariensis, þat haþ..in þe west þe ryuer Malua, and in þe norþ þe gewes of þe grete see. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 404 Being commanded by Cæsar to guard the iawes of the Adriaticke gulph. 1654 F. W. Observ. in Fulke's Meteors (new ed.) 165 The Ground perhaps open with those inundations, and the Gold fall into the gaping jaws of the Earth, and so stick there. 1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 395 Faux, the Jaws gaping between the Divisions of the Corollæ, where the Tube terminates. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake v. 194 The guide, abating of his pace, Led slowly through the pass's jaws. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xiv. 227 The ridge that formed the southern jaw of the chasm. 1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Byways i. 4 The torrent, foaming down between black jaws of rain-stained granite. 4. plural. Applied to the seizing or holding members of a machine or apparatus, arranged in pairs, and usually capable of an opening and closing movement; spec. Nautical the semicircular, concave, or forked end of a boom or gaff which clasps the mast with its projecting ends or ‘horns’. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > other parts neck?a1425 buttc1425 cheek1487 wing1577 face1601 ear1678 wood1683 strig1703 thumb-piece1760 jaws1789 crown1796 lug1833 sprig1835 point angle1869 bulb1885 nosepiece1983 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > spars used to extend head of sail > jaws fitting round mast hornsa1825 jaws1836 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 209 Bringing the jaws of the cap to embrace the stern-post. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 370 The end of the paper is at that time lying even with the extremity of the teeth i i, and the jaws of the tongs closing immediately that the rod j is put in motion. 1830 E. S. N. Campbell Dict. Mil. Sci. 39 Cock, that part of a musquet lock which sustains the two pieces of iron, called jaws, between which the flint is fixed. 1836 F. Marryat Pirate viii, in Pirate & Three Cutters 75 The jaws of the main-gaff were severed. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 421 Krom's laboratory crusher..In this machine (unlike any other) both jaws oscillate on centers, fixed some distance from the crushing faces. 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic 238 The joiner's vice..is furnished with 9 in. jaws to open 12 in. 5. figurative (in plural) The seizing action or capacity of any devouring agency, as death, time, etc. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by some hostile or injurious agency > seizing capacity of Hell, death, danger, etc. jaw1561 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. f. 50^v He knoweth himself to be deliuered out of the iawes of death. 1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induction xxxii And first within the portche and iawes of Hell. c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxx. iii The graves moist hungry jawes. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 116 To winne renowne Euen in the iawes of danger, and of death. View more context for this quotation 1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 41 Mustering of men in this case, was but casting away so many into the Gaghs of Death. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 16 Which great strength has preserv'd it thus long from the jaws of time. 1746 G. Berkeley Second Let. Tar-water §12 Many patients might thereby be rescued from the jaws of death. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Charge Light Brigade ii, in Maud & Other Poems 152 Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred. 1886 R. Broughton (1899) Dr. Cupid xxvi. 254 And as for him, poor little fellow, I cannot bear to be unkind to him, when he is only just out of the jaws of death. 1941 Life 20 Oct. 31/3 They ride the bitter-cold night skies for as long as twelve hours and methodically go into the jaws of death to do their job. 1994 High May 49/2 Suddenly my fevered mind has seemed to be looking into the jaws of death itself. 6. Vulgar loquacity; esp. ‘cheeky’ or impudent talk; also, colloquial, a talk, a speech, a lecture, an address; a long talk, incessant chatter. Frequent in the phrases to hold or stop one's jaw (where the sense may at first have been literal, as in to open, loose, or work one's jaws: cf. also to hold one's tongue). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] overspeecheOE tongue-itch1540 multiloquy1542 long tongue1557 garrulity1581 slipperiness1589 polylogy1602 volubility1602 loquacity1603 lubricity1603 tonguiness1607 overspeakinga1610 talkativeness1609 philology1623 tongue-vice1628 glibness1633 futility1640 linguacity1656 garrulousness1727 linguosity1727 loquaciousness1727 multiloquiousness1727 jaw1748 multiloquence1760 flippancy1789 verbal diarrhoea1808 magpiety1832 big mouth1834 pleniloquence1838 chattiness1876 open-mouthedness1883 gabbiness1887 garrulance1890 irreticence1919 talkiness1934 ear-bashing1945 mee-mawing1974 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech sauce malapert1529 petulancea1652 jaw1748 snash1786 slack-jaw1797 slang1805 gob1807 lip1821 cheek1825 slack1825 sass1841 back-talk1858 back sass1883 mouth1891 slack lip1899 back-chat1901 chin1902 slop1952 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat confabulationc1450 device1490 chat1573 tittle-tattle?c1640 small talk1650 confab1701 chit-chat1710 jaw1748 small-talking1786 prose1787 rap1787 coze1804 talky-talky1812 clack1813 chit-chatting1823 cozey1837 gossip1849 mardlea1852 yarn1857 conflab1873 chinwag1879 chopsing1879 cooze1880 chatting1884 schmoozing1884 talky-talk1884 pitch1888 schmooze1895 coosy1903 wongi1929 yap1930 kibitz1931 natter1943 old talk1956 jaw-jaw1958 yacking1959 ole talk1964 rapping1967 the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > vulgar or cheeky jaw1748 the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter chirma800 clappingc1386 glavera1400 clapa1420 clackc1440 blabc1460 clattera1500 babble?a1525 babblery1532 pratery1533 clitter-clatter1535 by-talk?1551 prattle1555 prittle-prattle1556 twittle-twattle1565 cacquet1567 prate?1574 prattlement1579 babblement1595 gibble-gabble1600 gabble1602 twattlea1639 tolutiloquence1656 pratement1657 gaggle1668 leden1674 cackle1676 twit-twat1677 clash1685 chit-chat1710 chatter-chitter1711 chitter-chatter1712 palavering1732 hubble-bubble1735 palaver1748 rattle1748 gum1751 mag1778 gabber1780 gammon1781 gash1787 chattery1789 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 yabble1808 clacket1812 talky-talky1812 potter1818 yatter1827 blue streak1830 gabblement1831 psilologya1834 chin-music1834 patter1841 jaw1842 chatter1851 brabble1861 tongue-work1866 yacker1882 talkee1885 chelp1891 chattermag1895 whitter1897 burble1898 yap1907 clatfart1913 jive1928 logorrhœa1935 waffle1937 yackety-yacking1953 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 motormouth1976 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. iii. 15 None of your jaw, you swab,..else I shall trim your laced jacket for you. 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 17 Hold your Jaw and dispatch. a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 58 Let's have no more of your jaw! 1800 Ld. Metcalfe in Fortn. Rev. (1885) June 757 Tremendous jaw from my tutor. 1836 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 94 A rich jaw between..Read and Buckle, who met afloat after a previous quarrel. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet ii, in New Monthly Mag. June 272 Parliamentary jabber and jaw. 1842 F. J. Furnivall in F. J. Furnivall: Personal Rec. (1911) p. xi Had a jaw with Young, which ended, as it began, in nothing. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 123/1 Jaw, abusive language. 1861 D. G. Rossetti Lett. (1965) II. 387 We would go to a theatre afterwards or else have a jaw here. 1868 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) I. 354 When they talk of right and law, we bid them hold their jaw. 1888 D. C. Murray in Illustr. London News Christmas No. 11/2 So long as a man has the sense to hold his jaw at the right time. 1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion i. 115 Come with me now and lets have a jaw over some supper. 1964 Guardian 2 Mar. 7/6 So before the show starts the promoter gives me a bit of a jaw. a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) viii. 79 He invited the two of us into the billiard-room of Grafton House..for a ‘jaw’. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Apr. 420/3 Without these things, committee work is just endless jaw and empty substitute. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. jaw-arch n. Π 1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man II. xviii. 111 The foremost of these pairs of gill-arches changes into the jaw-arch which gives rise to the upper and lower jaws. jaw-break n. Π 1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago 311 His chin fell on his chest, as by jaw-break. jaw-calipers n. Π 1900 Animal World XXXI. 18/2 They [larvæ of Libellula] then advance..until within half an inch of their prey, when out shoot the jaw-calipers, and the object is seized. jaw-chasm n. Π 1880 G. Meredith Egoist II. 105 The gaping jaw-chasm of his greed. jaw-forceps n. Π 1900 Animal World XXXI. 18/2 The snatch of their jaw-forceps is so quick it takes good eyesight to see it. jaw-gape n. Π 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 11 Lyrical on into death's red roaring jaw-gape. jaw-line n. Π 1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xiv. 144 Perhaps his jaw-line was a little tenser. 1971 Chatelaine Aug. 41/2 Tweezing stragglers over nose bridge and applying tawny blusher from brows to jawline livened her skin and slimmed her face. jaw-man n. Π 1894 A. Conan Doyle Round Red Lamp 203 He was himself a jawman, ‘a mere jawman’, as he modestly puts it, but in point of fact he [a surgeon] is too young..to confine himself to a specialty. jaw-muscle n. Π 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 301 In effort of any sort, contractions of the jaw-muscles and of those of respiration are added to those of the brow and glottis. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 140 My jaw-muscles getting numb. jaw-opening n. Π 1958 E. Fischer-Jørgensen in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 131/2 Slow jaw-opening might rather be combined with a fortis-lenis difference. jaw-sheath n. Π 1875 T. H. Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 770/1 [The] horny jaw-sheaths [of Siren] might be compared to those of the Anuran tadpole. jaw-work n. Π 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. 166 Come, come..no more of your jaw-work here. 1802 Morn. Her. in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1803) VI. 29 An event..conducive to jaw-work in every sense of the word. b. jaw-bearing adj. Π 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 700/1 The mandibular somite..is followed by two jaw-bearing somites (maxillary and labial). jaw-cracking adj. Π 1883 Illustr. London News 8 Dec. 551/1 (Farmer) Such jaw-cracking jokes. jaw-cutting adj. Π 1902 P. Marshall Metal Working Tools 45 Adjustable Jaw-Cutting Nippers. jaw-locked adj. Π 1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun III. 130 Their tongues..were, for some minutes, jaw-locked, after beholding this dismal portent. jaw-tied adj. Π 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. 75 My jaw-ty'd tongue no speech could lend. C2. jaw-bit n. U.S. Engineering a bar which holds together the bases of the two projections of a pedestal (or axle guard), below the journal-box. ΚΠ 1879 Car Builders' Cycl. Amer. Pract. 91/1 Jaw-bit, a bar extending across the mouth of a jaw underneath a journal-box and bolted to the horns of the pedestal. 1889 Cent. Dict. Jaw-bit, a short bar placed beneath a journal box to unite the two pedestals in a car-truck. 1906 Car Builder's Dict. at Pedestal The two projections of a pedestal are called pedestal horns, and the space between them a jaw, which is closed at the bottom by a Jaw Bit. jaw-chuck n. a chuck in a lathe furnished with jaws for seizing an object. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [noun] > part holding work mandrel1664 chock1665 pike1680 centre plate1717 carrier1733 chuck1806 screw chuck1827 grip-knob1833 faceplate1837 surface chuck1842 jaw-chuck1874 turning-carrier1877 screw worm chuck1881 steady1885 roller steady1911 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 549/1 [In figure] k is an independent jaw chuck. jaw-clonus n. spasmodic contraction of the muscles of the mouth when a blow is struck on the lower jaw as it hangs down. Π 1908 Practitioner June 762 A jaw-clonus is often a distinctive feature [in progressive muscular atrophy]. jaw clutch n. a claw clutch or a dog clutch. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > parts which provide power > [noun] > clutches bayonet1798 clutch1814 gland1825 friction-clutch1842 disc clutch1859 shifter1869 cone-clutch1874 clutch-box1875 jaw clutch1893 plate clutch1906 band clutch1910 single-plate clutch1926 1893 Langmaid & Gaisford Elem. Less. Steam Machinery vi. 62 A common form of this fitting is the jaw clutch. 1907 Daily Chron. 11 Nov. 7/3 When the change-speed lever is pushed away from the driver, the jaw clutch engages the low gear wheels. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 927/1 A clutch of this description can be made to engage without difficulty, there being no fixed positions or steps such as one associates with the ordinary jaw-clutch. 1936 W. Staniar Mech. Power Transmission Handbk. vii. 267 Jaw Clutches.—This type of clutch is employed for moderate and heavy rough driving... It consists of a square or spiral jaw portion which is keyed to the driving shaft and a sleeve portion equipped with square or spiral jaws into which the driving portion can be engaged. With this type of clutch..the pick-up is instantaneous, resulting therefore in shock. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) III. 224/1 Although square jaw clutches are the strongest and most elementary to construct, the difficulty of engagement limits their use... A modification..to permit more convenient engagement and to provide a more gradual movement of the mating faces toward each other produces the spiral jaw clutch. jaw-crusher n. Mining an ore-crushing machine similar to the jaw-breaker. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for crushing ore stamping-mill1552 bucker1653 buck1683 stamp-mill1752 Ball stamp1860 jaw-breaker1877 jaw-crusher1877 spaller1877 arrastre1881 trapiche1881 gravitation stamp1894 ball mill1895 gravity stamp1903 slugger1903 tube-mill1909 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 421 A similar manner to that in which the jaw-crusher operates so effectually on large pieces of ore. jaw-foot n. = foot-jaw n. at foot n. and int. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > mouth-like appendage maxilla1798 foot-jaw1828 maxilliped1846 masticatory foot1852 mouth organ1863 gnathite1870 jaw-foot1871 gnathobase1881 jaw-process1881 malipede1883 1871 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 4) xiv. 422 The term jaw-feet has now, by common consent, become the appellation by which they are distinguished. 1883 A. Wilson in Longman's Mag. II. 48 The curious jaws, jaw-feet, and legs of the armoured crustacean. jaw-footed adj. provided with a jaw-foot. jaw-jerk n. Medicine a jerk (jerk n.¹ 3a) of the lower jaw elicited by a downward blow on it when the mouth is open. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > reactions to tests red reflex1864 jaw-jerk1886 pseudoreaction1897 Weil–Felix reaction1919 Schultz–Charlton1922 Kolmer–Wassermann1925 Prausnitz–Küstner1929 1886 A. de Watteville in Brain 8 518 It does not appear to be generally known that a ‘jaw-jerk’ can be readily elicited... The phenomenon is clearly of the same nature as that of the ‘knee-jerk’, and is due to the sudden stretching of the masseter and other muscles of mastication. Hence the name I have ventured to give to it, in preference to the longer and less accurate term mandibular (or masseteric) tendon-reaction (or reflex). 1906 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 4) s.v. Reflex Jaw-jerk reflex, clonic contraction of the inferior maxilla and other muscles of mastication. 1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxiv. 12/2 This jerk [sc. the knee jerk] is one of a whole family of tendon jerks... They include the Achilles tendon or ankle jerk..the biceps and triceps jerks,..and the masseter-temporalis or jaw jerk. Categories » jaw-lever n. a veterinary instrument for opening the mouth and administering medicine to cattle (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858). jaw-piece n. Architecture †(a) = jowpy n.; (b) (see quot. 1886). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > cornice > types of jowpy1374 severon table1412 jowl-piece1533 jaw-piece1548 vaws-cornice1688 Welsh cornice1792 angel cornice1815 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiij^v The iawe pece of thesaid selyng: whiche pece was guilte with fine Golde. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clvi^v The Iawe peces and crestes were karued wyth Vinettes and trailes of sauage worke, and richely gilted with gold and Bise. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 283 A ‘jaw-piece’ or triangular piece of wood..interposed between [the principal] itself and the spars forming the roof. jaw-process n. = gnathobase n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > mouth-like appendage maxilla1798 foot-jaw1828 maxilliped1846 masticatory foot1852 mouth organ1863 gnathite1870 jaw-foot1871 gnathobase1881 jaw-process1881 malipede1883 1881 E. R. Lankester in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. Apr. 348 Of the six endites the proximal is somewhat isolated and pushed towards the middle line... It is a jaw process, and may be spoken of as the ‘gnathobase’. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 697/1 The usual uni-ramose limb found in the various classes of Arthropoda..varies as to the presence or absence of the jaw-process. jaw-rope n. Nautical the rope which fastens the two horns or prongs of the boom or gaff round the mast. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope fastening jaws of gaff jaw-rope1834 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiii. 163 I..disengaged the jaw-rope and small gear about the mast. 1886 F. H. H. Guillemard Cruise Marchesa I. 230 The jaw-rope had carried away. jawsmith n. (also jaw-smith) U.S. slang a talkative person; esp. a loud-mouthed demagogue. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person chaterestrea1250 jangler1303 babbler1366 blabbererc1375 jangleressc1386 talkerc1386 clatterer1388 cacklera1400 languager1436 carperc1440 mamblerc1450 praterc1500 jackdaw?1520 chewet1546 flibbertigibbet1549 clatterfart1552 patterer1552 piec1557 long tongue?1562 prattler1567 piet1574 twattler1577 brawler1581 nimble-chops1581 pratepie1582 roita1585 whittera1585 full-mouth1589 interprater1591 chatterer1592 pianet1594 bablatrice1595 parakeet1598 Bow-bell cockney1600 prattle-basket1602 bagpipe1603 worder1606 babliaminy1608 chougha1616 gabbler1624 blatterer1627 magpie1632 prate-apace1636 rattlea1637 clack1640 blateroon1647 overtalker1654 prate-roast1671 prattle-box1671 babelard1678 twattle-basket1688 mouth1699 tongue-pad1699 chatterista1704 rattler1709 morologist1727 chatterbox1774 palaverer1788 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 slangwhanger1807 nash-gab1816 pump1823 windbag1827 big mouth1834 gasbag1841 chattermag1844 tattle-monger1848 rattletrap1850 gasser1855 mouth almighty1864 clucker1869 talky-talky1869 gabster1870 loudmouth1870 tonguester1871 palaverista1873 mag1876 jawsmith1887 spieler1894 twitterer1895 yabbler1901 wordster1904 poofter1916 blatherer1920 ear-bender1922 burbler1923 woofer1934 ear-basher1944 motormouth1955 yacker1960 yammerer1978 jay- 1887 Chicago Tribune 13 May 5/2 George Schilling, Socialist and jawsmith. 1910 Sat. Evening Post 2 July 13/3 ‘Hot-air artists’ was a phrase uncoined; the farmer called them ‘jawsmiths’. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §422 Talker,..jawsmith (esp. a public speaker). jaw-spring n. U.S. a journal spring. ΚΠ 1879 Car Builders' Cycl. Amer. Pract. 92/1 Jaw-spring, a Journal-spring, which see. 1889 Cent. Dict. Jaw-spring, a journal-spring. jaw-tackle n. slang the muscles of the jaws; the mouth, etc., as employed in talking. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [noun] > muscles of jaws masseter1578 grinder1615 grinder-tongue muscles1615 temporalis muscle1676 digastric1696 pterygoid muscle1732 pterygoid1828 jaw-tackle1831 masseteric1836 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. 290 Van would have countermanded this, had I not clapped my hand as a stopper on his jaw-tackle. 1884 Bread-winners 210 He had never worked a muscle in his life except his jaw-tackle. jaw-wedge n. U.S. a wedge used to tighten the axle-box in the axle-guard of a railway truck. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Jaw-wedge, a wedge to tighten the axle-box in an axle-guard. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1212/1 Jaw-wedge, a wedge to tighten the axle-box in the jaw or guard of a railway car-truck. Draft additions June 2003 jaw-dropper n. an astonishing, amazing, or awe-inspiring person or thing; something likely to cause a person's jaw to drop. Π 1984 EPCOT Center in net.travel (Usenet newsgroup) 25 Sept. I find these block-long monsters that chew the heck out of nature in the icy North Sea or the frozen tundra real jawdroppers that go a long way to upstage the dinosaurs. 1994 Sports Illustr. (Electronic ed.) 11 Apr. The shot that lifted North Carolina to a 60-59 victory and its first national women's basketball title was a jaw-dropper, even for a team whose outrageously gifted athletes found a different way to win all six of its games in the tournament. 2002 Focus May 82/1 Even without the shock of the timeless jaw-dropper of an ending, The Usual Suspects SE is one of the most eagerly anticipated DVD releases ever. Draft additions June 2003 jaw-dropping adj. astonishing, amazing, awe-inspiring, shocking; such as causes a person's jaw to drop. Π 1900 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 11 Aug. 9/3 Scientific men..have learned that ‘it is estimated’..authorizes them to tell with impunity the most jaw dropping, eye bulging whoppers. 1962 J. J. Kilpatrick Southern Case for School Desegregation i. 66 Myrdal then paints a picture of the South no Southerner would recognize... A jaw-dropping example of the strange fabrications that have made Myrdal's work notorious. 1980 Washington Post 9 May e7/6 It is, as AFI theater director Michael Clark notes, ‘truly a jaw-dropping motion picture’. 1997 XL for Men Aug. 16/3 You're brought back to earth by the Land Rover slowing down, so there's no control on your part... It's a jaw-dropping experience. Draft additions June 2003 jaw-droppingly adv. Π 1987 Washington Post 22 Mar. (Mag.) 25/1 Even by Dinka standards, however, 7 feet, 6 inches is jaw-droppingly tall. 2002 Cheshire Life Aug. 164 The jaw-droppingly expensive wine list included a splendid..burgundy at £2,000. Draft additions June 2003 Jaws of Life n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a proprietary name for) a hydraulic apparatus used to free accident victims from wreckage. ΚΠ 1973 San Francisco Chron. 9 Jan. 5/1 The tools, known as ‘Jaws of Life’ are like big pliers. Hydraulically operated, they can be used to pry apart cars and other vehicles in which people are trapped. 1989 C. Hiaasen Skin Tight (1990) x. 107 The second thing every noncomatose accident victim saw (after the Jaws of Life) was Kipper Garth's phone number in nine-foot red letters. 2002 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) 10 Jan. b6/3 Rescue crews used a Jaws of Life device to get Fallie out of her wrecked car. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). jawn.² Brit. /dʒɔː/, U.S. /dʒɔ/, /dʒɑ/, Scottish English /dʒɔ/ Etymology: Goes with jaw v.², the two appearing together early in 16th cent. Origin unknown. Scottish and northern dialect. 1. The rush or dash of a wave; a surging or dashing wave, a billow. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > swelling or surging wave swelling1387 jaw1513 surge1530 roll1535 brimmer1652 roller1829 beachcomber1859 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. iii. 21 Heich as ane hill the iaw of watter brak. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. i. 136 I am God Tibris..Quhilk..wyth mony iaup and iaw Bettis thir brayis, schawand the bankis down. 1606 W. Arthur & H. Charteris Rollock's Lect. 1st & 2nd Epist. Paul to Thessalonians (1 Thess.) x. 118 The sey when it flowes on a rock, immediatelie the iaw returnes backe againe in the sey. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 85 Sae we had better jouk, until the jaw Gang o'er our heads. ?a1800 Sir Patrick Spence viii. (Child) They had not saild upon the sea A league but merely three, When ugly, ugly were the jaws That rowd unto their knee. 1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer III. 65 Tak guid tent 'at ye ride upo' the tap o' 't, an' no lat it rise like a muckle jaw ower yer heid; for it's an awfu' thing to be droont in riches. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Jaa, the jaw. 2. A quantity of water or other liquid dashed, splashed, or thrown out; an outpour of water, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > quantity splashed splash1736 jawa1816 a1816 E. Picken in Whistle-Binkie (1838) 1st Ser. 59 Wi' jaws o' toddy reeking het, We'll keep the genial current warm. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) The cow has gi'en a gude jaw the day. 1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 57 Giein' a pot a bit syne [= rinse] wi' a jaw o' water. Derivatives jaw-box n. from jaw v.²) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > [noun] > kitchen sink kitchen sink1582 washing-stone1585 jaw-box- [see jaw-tub n.]. jaw-tub n. Scottish a kitchen sink with sides; also jaw-hole n.¹ ΚΠ 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Jaw tub, Jaw box, a scullery sink. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). jawv.¹ Brit. /dʒɔː/, U.S. /dʒɔ/, /dʒɑ/ Etymology: < jaw n.¹ †1. transitive. To seize or devour with the jaws; to use the jaws upon. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > chew grindc1200 chew1377 chow1382 chaw1530 masticate1562 chop1581 manducate1623 jawa1625 a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) iii. ii. 7 I wreake not if the wolves would jaw me, so He had this File. 2. slang. a. intransitive. To use the vocal organs; to speak, talk. (A colloquial, contemptuous, or hostile equivalent for speak.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] matheleOE speakc888 spellc888 yedc888 i-quethec900 reirdOE meldOE meleOE quidOE i-meleOE wordOE to open one's mouth (also lips)OE mootOE spellc1175 carpa1240 spilec1275 bespeakc1314 adda1382 mella1400 moutha1400 utter?a1400 lalec1400 nurnc1400 parlec1400 talkc1400 to say forthc1405 rekea1450 to say on1487 nevena1500 quinch1511 quetch1530 queckc1540 walk1550 cant1567 twang1602 articulate1615 tella1616 betalk1622 sermocinate1623 to give tongue1737 jaw1748 to break stillness1768 outspeaka1788 to give mouth1854 larum1877 to make noises1909 verbal1974 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiv. 222 He swore woundily at the lieutenant..whereby the lieutenant returned the salute, and they jawed together fore and aft a good spell. 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal IV. ii. xiii. 238 Will you stand jawing here? 1801 M. G. Lewis Sailor's Tale in Tales of Wonder iv In vain I begg'd, and swore, and jaw'd; Nick no excuse would hear. 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus viii. 98 What's the good of jawing at him? b. transitive. To address censoriously or abusively; to scold or ‘lecture’ (a person). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > scold chidec1230 ban1340 tongue1388 rate1393 flite14.. rehetec1400 janglec1430 chafec1485 rattle1542 berate1548 quarrel1587 hazen?1608 bequarrel1624 huff1674 shrewa1687 to claw away, off1692 tongue-pad1707 to blow up1710 scold1718 rag1739 redd1776 bullyraga1790 jaw1810 targe1825 haze1829 overhaul1840 tongue-walk1841 trim1882 to call down1883 tongue-lash1887 roar1917 to go off at (a person)1941 chew1948 wrinch2009 1810 Sporting Mag. 36 262 He was then very abusive and noisy; he kept jawing us. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xi. 139 I have been jawed for letting you go. 1896 Chicago Advance 30 July 141/1 In politics we jaw one another partly for the fun of it. 3. to jaw away: to cut to the shape of jaws, or in a concave curve. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (transitive)] > make concave hollowc1450 incavate1727 to jaw away1802 dish1805 concave1818 saucer1855 spoon1897 cup1909 1802 Naval Chron. 8 470 The top-most part of the cap was cut to fit the rudder, and the after part jawed away, so as to work on the stern-post. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). jawv.² Brit. /dʒɔː/, U.S. /dʒɔ/, /dʒɑ/, Scottish English /dʒɔ/ Forms: Also 1600s jae. Etymology: See jaw n.² Scottish. 1. intransitive. To rush in waves; to dash or pour; to splash; to surge. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > move restlessly about [verb (intransitive)] > run high, surge, or heave flash1387 lifta1400 walterc1400 waverc1425 welter1489 jaw1513 roll?1532 surge1566 billow1596 to run high1598 estuate1658 to run steep1894 roil1913 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid v. Prol. 53 Bot my propyne coym fra the pres fuit hait, Vnforlatit, not iawyn fra tun to tun. ?a1800 Sir Roland 91 in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Ballads I. (1857) 345 For now the water jawes owre my head, And it gurgles in my mouth. 2. transitive. To pour or dash (water) in waves; to throw or dash (liquid) in quantity. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > pour in waves [verb (transitive)] jawc1686 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > copiously jawc1686 c1686 R. Law Memorialls (1818) 177 When it [the elephant] drinks..it jaes in the water in it's mouth as from a great spout. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i Tempest may cease to jaw the rowan flood. 1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 49 Then up they gat the maskin-pat, And in the sea did jaw, man. Derivatives ˈjawing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [adjective] > running high, surging, or rolling wallingOE waveringc1425 surging1566 trilling1567 wambling1581 grown1600 surgeful1612 sourcinga1660 washing1697 flashing1744 under-rolling1745 jawing1802 rolly1885 1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 53 The stately tower..Whilk stood aboon the jawing wave. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1374n.²1513v.¹a1625v.²1513
随便看	enjambements enjambing enjambment enjambments enjambs emits emitted emittent emitter emitter-base emitter-follower emitter-junction emitter-resistance emitterbase emitterfollower emitterjunction emitterresistance emitters emitting emma emma-emma-esses emma-gee emmaemmaesses emmagee emmanché

jawn.1

Compounds

Draft additions June 2003

Draft additions June 2003

Draft additions June 2003

Draft additions June 2003

jawn.2

Derivatives

jawv.1

jawv.2

Derivatives

jawn.¹

jawn.²

jawv.¹

jawv.²