whopperjawed
/ˈwɑpɚd͡ʒɔd/
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cot caught merger/ˈwɑpɚd͡ʒɑd/
whopperjawed adjective: crooked, misaligned, out of sorts.
Adjective
whopperjawed (comparative more whopperjawed, superlative most whopperjawed)
- Crooked, misaligned, out of sorts.
- […] whopper jawed fogies, […]1854 January 3, “Farm Work for December”, in Industrial Luminary, volume 1, number 24, Parkville, Missouri, page 1, column 5
- The fact that inexperienced, ignorant men have often been induced by the advice of mere theorists, or their own over-confidence, to undertake this kind of building, resulting, as might naturally be expected, in ungainly, crooked, whopper-jawed, and cracked walls, is no evidence whatever against the...1856 July, “Gravel, Grout, or Concrete Buildings”, in American Phrenological Journal, volume XXIV, number 1, New York, page 10, column 1
Examples of whopperjawed in a sentence
- They have found some green persimmons somewhere, for their whistling is badly whopperjawed.1894 July 10, “Editorial Notes”, in The Progressive Farmer, volume 9, number 22, Raleigh, North Carolina, page 2, column 1:
- “It‘s enough tew make a feller whopperjawed.”1907, Richard Taylor Wiley, “XVIII. On Bridenhall Shoal”, in Sim Greene and Tom the Tinker‘s Men: A Narrative of the Whisky Insurrection...
- “Conflicting circumstances have me so seriously muddled I am whopperjawed if I can say, but it looks like it.1915, Clarence E. Hatfield, The Tug of the Millstone, Richard G. Badger, pages 238–239:
Forms of whopperjawed
| comparative | more whopperjawed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most whopperjawed |
| alternative form | whipperjawed |
| alternative form | whopper-jawed |
| alternative form | whomperjawed |
Origin of whopperjawed
Earliest known use is from 1854 (see quotations).
Questions about whopperjawed
- What does whopperjawed mean?
- Whopperjawed means crooked, misaligned, out of sorts.
- How do you use whopperjawed in a sentence?
- They have found some green persimmons somewhere, for their whistling is badly whopperjawed.
- What part of speech is whopperjawed?
- Whopperjawed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce whopperjawed?
- Whopperjawed is pronounced /ˈwɑpɚd͡ʒɔd/ (US).
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