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lantern-jawed

lantern-jawed adjective: having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.

Adjective

lantern-jawed (not comparable)

  1. Having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.
    • He was very thin and lantern-jawed. He dared not meet his own eyes in the mirror; he never looked at himself.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 15”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
    • A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab.1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 1, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 21

Forms of lantern-jawed

alternative formlantern jawed

Questions about lantern-jawed

What does lantern-jawed mean?
Lantern-jawed means having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.
What part of speech is lantern-jawed?
Lantern-jawed is an adjective.

Words near lantern-jawed in the dictionary

  1. lantern slides
  2. lantern tower
  3. lantern towers
  4. lantern wheel
  5. lantern wheels
  6. lantern-jawed
  7. lanternbelly
  8. lanterne rouge
  9. lanterned
  10. lanternes rouges
  11. lanternfish

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