jawboned
jawboned is the simple past and past participle of jawbone.
Meaning of jawbone
Verb
jawbone (third-person singular simple present jawbones, present participle jawboning, simple past and past participle jawboned)
- To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate.
- “We got a winner. He stole her glasses and she couldn't see. Boring.” (crowd jeering) “Give me my glasses back.” “I'm gonna give your glasses to your master.” “Lot of jawboning going on.” “Okay? Here you go. It was nice meeting you, okay?” “...a little less hot air, but I present to you our new...2022 July 26, William Meny & Paul Simms, “The Night Market” (16:56 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Ringmaster (Nick Corirossi)
- (especially of regulatory agencies) To try to persuade (someone) through implied threats of punitive action, such as tighter regulatory control.
Adjective
jawboned (not comparable)
- Having a specified kind of jawbone.
- When we finally made our departure, a long-jawboned old desk clerk gave me a knowing wink and chortled, "That's a mighty frisky little bride you've got."1970, Douglass Cater, Dana, the Irrelevant Man, page 252
Questions about jawboned
- What does jawboned mean?
- Jawboned means having a specified kind of jawbone.
- What is jawboned the simple past and past participle of?
- Jawboned is the simple past and past participle of jawbone.
- What part of speech is jawboned?
- Jawboned is an adjective.
Words near jawboned in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: jawboned (page history and authors); jawbone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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