/ · 1894 Brewer’s · J · Jaw
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Words of complaint; wrangling, abuse, jabber. “To jaw,” to annoy with words, to jabber, wrangle, or abuse. The French gueule and gueuler are used in the same manner.
Hold your jaw. Hold your tongue or jabber.
What are you jawing about? What are you jabbering or wrangling about?
A break-jaw word. A very long word, or one hard to pronounce.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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