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square-jawed

square-jawed adjective: having a square jaw.

square-jawed: having a square jaw
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Adjective

square-jawed (not comparable)

  1. Having a square jaw.
    • The horse was not in the least like a Greek horse (nor even a Trojan), and F.M. the Duke of Wellington was not represented with the ensis or short sword in his grasp, the chlamys flying from his shoulder, or the paludamentum, as more suitable for the cool of the English climate (totidem divisos...1847, “The Wellington Statue”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., London, page 523, column 2
    • A square-jawed ruffian, in mud-anointed overcoat, is preluding to a fight with a woman about some etiquette, in one of these dens.1853 November 17, “Shocking State of Society”, in The Tri-Weekly Commercial, volume VIII, number 105 (whole 1065), Wilmington, N.C., page [4], column 1

Forms of square-jawed

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Questions about square-jawed

What does square-jawed mean?
Square-jawed means having a square jaw.
What part of speech is square-jawed?
Square-jawed is an adjective.

Words near square-jawed in the dictionary

  1. square-eyed
  2. square-free
  3. square-gaiter
  4. square-gaiters
  5. square-headed
  6. square-jawed
  7. square-lipped rhinoceros
  8. square-lipped rhinoceroses
  9. square-pierced
  10. square-pushing
  11. square-rigged

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