jawing

Verb (1)

jaw (third-person singular simple present jaws, present participle jawing, simple past and past participle jawed)

1. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
   • He built the Summit, so as to have no neighbours. And Lady Warren couldn't abide It. She was always jawing him about it, and they had one awful quarrel, in his study.1933, Ethel Lina White, The Spiral Staircase (Some Must Watch), Chapter 4, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300931.txt
2. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
   • […] he waked him, which put him in a main high passion, and he swore woundily at the lieutenant, and called him lousy Scotch son of a whore […], and swab, and lubber, whereby the lieutenant returned the salute, and they jawed together fore and aft a good spell, till at last the captain turned out...1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 24, in The Adventures of Roderick Random
3. (informal, intransitive) To talk; to converse.
   • Today the beastly boat is level at last and the sun’s out and we have all been jawing about what to do.1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998

   Synonyms:

   chat, discourse, parley, common, confab, confabulate, conversate, converse, convo, treat

4. (intransitive, transitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.

Verb (2)

jaw (third-person singular simple present jaws, present participle jawing, simple past and past participle jawed)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To pour or throw out.
   • Bletherum bore her to the vestry, Jaw'd some water in her face; […]1863, James Nicholson, Kilwuddie and other poems, page 80
2. (Scotland, transitive) To splash; to surge.
   • 'Twas freezin', thowin', rainin', snawin', In souple turns; While sheughs an' deep fur-drains were jawin' To spate the burns.1877, Walter Watson, The Poems and Songs of Walter Watson, page 100

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