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jawjutting

jawjutting is the alternative form of jaw-jutting.

Meaning of jaw-jutting

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

Forms of jawjutting

comparativemore jawjutting
superlativemost jawjutting

Questions about jawjutting

What is jawjutting the alternative form of?
Jawjutting is the alternative form of jaw-jutting.

Words near jawjutting in the dictionary

  1. jawing away
  2. jawing down
  3. jawings
  4. Jawjah
  5. Jawjuh
  6. jawjutting
  7. jawl
  8. jawled
  9. jawler
  10. jawlers
  11. jawless

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