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blue-jawed

blue-jawed adjective: showing a stubble of unshaved beard.

Adjective

blue-jawed (comparative more blue-jawed, superlative most blue-jawed)

  1. Showing a stubble of unshaved beard.
    • The walls hold tinted photographs of himself and Mim in high school, taken he remembers by a pushy pudgy little blue-jawed crook who called himself a Studio and weaseled his way into the building every spring and made them line up in the auditorium and wet-comb their hair...1971, John Updike, Rabbit Redux, New York: RosettaBooks, page 102
    • Lay there and flirted with the blue-jawed paramedic leaning over him, certain bawdy entendres on expressions like vital signs and dilation until the paramedic radioed ahead to Cambridge City's E. Room to cancel the crash-cart.1996, David Foster Wallace, “14 November Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 689–690
  2. Having a bruised jaw.

Forms of blue-jawed

comparativemore blue-jawed
superlativemost blue-jawed

Questions about blue-jawed

What does blue-jawed mean?
Blue-jawed means showing a stubble of unshaved beard.
What part of speech is blue-jawed?
Blue-jawed is an adjective.

Words near blue-jawed in the dictionary

  1. blue-headed vireo
  2. blue-headed wagtail
  3. blue-headed wagtails
  4. blue-helmet
  5. blue-helmets
  6. blue-jawed
  7. blue-legged mantella
  8. blue-light special
  9. blue-light specials
  10. blue-lined
  11. blue-linked

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