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lantern jawed

lantern jawed is the alternative form of lantern-jawed.

Meaning of lantern-jawed

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

Questions about lantern jawed

What is lantern jawed the alternative form of?
Lantern jawed is the alternative form of lantern-jawed.

Words near lantern jawed in the dictionary

  1. lantern flowers
  2. lantern fly
  3. lantern gear
  4. lantern gears
  5. lantern jaw
  6. lantern jawed
  7. lantern jaws
  8. lantern of the dead
  9. lantern roof
  10. lantern roofs
  11. lantern shark

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lantern jawed (page history and authors); lantern-jawed (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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