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jaw-jutting

jaw-jutting adjective: having one’s lower jaw protruding forward.

Adjective

jaw-jutting (comparative more jaw-jutting, superlative most jaw-jutting)

  1. Having one’s lower jaw protruding forward
  2. (figuratively) determined, dogged, strong-willed, defiant
    • What he called her “genius” for diplomacy, her tolerance of the precious sensitivities of intellectuals, was as useless in his rough-and-tumble relations with goons and jailers as his jaw-jutting aggressions would be in her mannered and scrupulous artistic circle.1954, Lars Lawrence (pseudonym of Philip Stevenson), Morning, Noon, and Night, New York: Putnam, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 147
    • Up on the Gianicolo the Jewish stallholders sold metal replicas of St. Peter’s and Romulus and Remus and jawjutting pictures of the Duce.1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 43, in Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson

Forms of jaw-jutting

comparativemore jaw-jutting
superlativemost jaw-jutting
alternative formjawjutting

Questions about jaw-jutting

What does jaw-jutting mean?
Jaw-jutting means having one’s lower jaw protruding forward.
What part of speech is jaw-jutting?
Jaw-jutting is an adjective.

Words near jaw-jutting in the dictionary

  1. jaw-jacks
  2. jaw-jaw
  3. jaw-jawed
  4. jaw-jawing
  5. jaw-jaws
  6. jaw-jutting
  7. jaw-like
  8. jaw-twister
  9. jaw-twisters
  10. Jawa
  11. jawab

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