Definition of "jawed" []

• Having a jaw or jaws, especially of a specified kind. Often used in combination: slack-jawed; the jawed fishes. (adjective)

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• "The four passengers with me "jawed" me quite enough to "extract" the patience of an ancient Job for having treated government property to a watery burial in Red river."
• "Men began to say that he 'jawed' too much and would not let them go to bed, little knowing how he used to try to prolong a conversation so that he might not be left alone with a horrible fear always ready to pounce upon him when night fell, and when only the thud of the engines playing some maddening tune broke the silence."
• "A girl of his own class would have flashed at him, probably would have "jawed" him."