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jawbox

jawbox noun: a tenement sink.

Noun

jawbox (plural jawboxes)

  1. (Scotland, dated) A tenement sink.
    • After a week he had to accept that he was growing a black beard, not because he wanted one, but because he could think of no way of shaving. There was a jaw-box in the tiny kitchen but no taps.1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal (chapter 3, p.90 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)
    • She snatches towels from the laundry basket — two, three, four —soaks them at the jawbox sink and lays them along the bottom of the kitchen door.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 5
    Synonyms:
    jaw-hole

Synonyms of jawbox

Forms of jawbox

pluraljawboxes
alternative formjaw-box

Origin of jawbox

From jaw + box, from jaw (“to pour, throw out, splash”).

Questions about jawbox

What does jawbox mean?
Jawbox means a tenement sink.
What part of speech is jawbox?
Jawbox is a noun.
What is the plural of jawbox?
The plural of jawbox is jawboxes.

Words near jawbox in the dictionary

  1. jawbones
  2. jawboning
  3. jawbonings
  4. jawbonist
  5. jawbonists
  6. jawbox
  7. jawboxes
  8. jawbreaker
  9. jawbreakers
  10. jawbreaking
  11. jawbreakingly

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