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wapper-jawed

wapper-jawed adjective: having a projecting underjaw.

Adjective

wapper-jawed (comparative more wapper-jawed, superlative most wapper-jawed)

  1. Having a projecting underjaw.
    • Fancy an heir, that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hare-lipped, wapper-jawed, car rot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, — my case was yet worse.1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 5

Forms of wapper-jawed

comparativemore wapper-jawed
superlativemost wapper-jawed

Origin of wapper-jawed

Earliest known use is from 1848 (see quotation).

Questions about wapper-jawed

What does wapper-jawed mean?
Wapper-jawed means having a projecting underjaw.
What part of speech is wapper-jawed?
Wapper-jawed is an adjective.

Words near wapper-jawed in the dictionary

  1. wappenshaw
  2. wappenshawing
  3. wapper
  4. wapper jaw
  5. wapper jaws
  6. wapper-jawed
  7. wappered
  8. wappering
  9. wapperjawed
  10. wappers
  11. wapping

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