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flap-jawed

flap-jawed adjective: chattery; gossipy.

Adjective

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

  1. (informal) Chattery; gossipy.
    • […] to hit someone, to smoke pot for days on end, or get in a truck and flee the city: anything but be shut up there on his way home, driven around like a kid by this flap-jawed chauffeur.2017, Jorge Zepeda Patterson, Milena: Or, The Most Beautiful Femur in the World

Forms of flap-jawed

comparativemore flap-jawed
superlativemost flap-jawed

Questions about flap-jawed

What does flap-jawed mean?
Flap-jawed means chattery; gossipy.
What part of speech is flap-jawed?
Flap-jawed is an adjective.

Words near flap-jawed in the dictionary

  1. flap-doodled
  2. flap-doodles
  3. flap-doodling
  4. flap-eared
  5. flap-jacky
  6. flap-jawed
  7. flapcake
  8. flapcakes
  9. flapdock
  10. flapdoodle
  11. flapdoodled

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