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wapperjawed

wapperjawed is the alternative form of wapper-jawed.

Meaning of wapper-jawed

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 wapperjawed

comparativemore wapperjawed
superlativemost wapperjawed

Questions about wapperjawed

What is wapperjawed the alternative form of?
Wapperjawed is the alternative form of wapper-jawed.

Words near wapperjawed in the dictionary

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

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