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jaw-fallen
ˈjaw-ˌfallen, a. [f. jaw n.1 + fallen pa. pple.] Having the lower jaw fallen or hanging loose; chop-fallen; dejected.1603 Florio Montaigne i. xl. (1632) 128 The wench offered him was jaw-falne, long-cheekt, and sharpe-nosed. a 1691 J. Flavel Sea-Deliv. (1754) 165 We were jaw-fallen and starved with ... Oxford English Dictionary
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jaw
▪ I. jaw, n.1 (dʒɔː) Forms: α. 4–5 iow, 4–6 iowe; β. 5–7 iawe, 7– jaw; (5 geaw, gowe, gew, 7 gagh). [A word of difficult etymology, on the origin of which the evidence known to us affords conflicting indications. It occurs in the form jow(e from c 1375; c 1483 we find jaw(e, which before long supers... Oxford English Dictionary
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