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jaw

noun

  1. body part
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verb

No English definition recorded for this entry.

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since 1513 (as a verb and noun) in Scots. The DSL speculates that it might be related to Scots (and Northern English dialectal) jall, joll "knock, bump; toll (a bell)" via the notion of knocking "one thing against another, as waves on a rock". The EDD compares Old Norse jaga (“move to and fro”).

  1. A wave, a billow, a breaker.

    Upo' the briny Borean jaws to float,

    ... a craft […] That, like the white sea-mew, jinket the jaws On the briny breist o' the main.

  2. A dash or spurt of water; any large quantity of water or other liquid.

    But sweetly bends the reamin' bicker, To drown dull care in jaws o' liquor.

    The nauseous mixture fell, When full in play; Wi' jaws upon the sprawling hash, […]

verb

Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since 1513 (as a verb and noun) in Scots. The DSL speculates that it might be related to Scots (and Northern English dialectal) jall, joll "knock, bump; toll (a bell)" via the notion of knocking "one thing against another, as waves on a rock". The EDD compares Old Norse jaga (“move to and fro”).

  1. To pour or throw out.

    Bletherum bore her to the vestry, Jaw'd some water in her face; […]

    Nae need to jaw watter on a droun'd moose.

  2. To splash; to surge.

    'Twas freezin', thowin', rainin', snawin', In souple turns; While sheughs an' deep fur-drains were jawin' To spate the burns.

    ... a burn "whiles jawin' like a sea."