jaw

jaw is a 3-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
2. noun. Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering.
3. noun. In the plural, the mouth.
4. noun. Fig.: Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; esp., pl., the mouth or way of entrance; as, the jaws of a pass; the jaws of darkness; the jaws of death.
5. noun. A notch or opening.
6. noun. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car pedestal. See Axle guard.
7. noun. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine.
8. noun. The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
9. noun. Impudent or abusive talk.
10. intransitive verb. To scold; to clamor.
11. transitive verb. To assail or abuse by scolding.
12. noun. holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
13. noun. the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
14. noun. the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
15. verb. censure severely or angrily

    "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"

    "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"

    Synonyms: berate, chide, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, trounce

16. verb. talk incessantly and tiresomely

    Synonyms: yack

17. verb. talk socially without exchanging too much information

    "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"

    Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, visit

18. verb. chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

    "He jawed his bubble gum"

    "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"

    Synonyms: chew, manducate, masticate

Synonyms

berate, chide, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold, trounce, yack, chaffer, chat, chatter, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, visit, chew

Common word forms

jaws, jawed, jawing, jawless

Words from these letters

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