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wapper jaws

wapper jaws is the plural of wapper jaw.

Meaning of wapper jaw

Noun

wapper jaw (plural wapper jaws)

  1. A projecting underjaw.
    • A flood of moon-light bent through a large bull’s eye in the root of his shop, and fell upon the form of an over-grown chimney sweeper, with one hand pressed against his wapper-jaw, as if expiring with the tooth-ache, while he crouched down and appeared to rummage after something in a pile of...1825 December 2, X. O., “Legends of North-End: The Golden Tooth”, in New England Galaxy, volume VIII, number 425, page 3, column 1

Questions about wapper jaws

What is wapper jaws the plural of?
Wapper jaws is the plural of wapper jaw.

Words near wapper jaws in the dictionary

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

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