Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
- 2noun
Hence, also, the bone itself with the teeth and covering.
- 3noun
In the plural, the mouth.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
A notch or opening.
- 6noun
A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place; as, the jaw of a railway-car pedestal. See Axle guard.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
- 9noun
Impudent or abusive talk.
- 10intransitive verb
To scold; to clamor.
- 11transitive verb
To assail or abuse by scolding.
- 12noun
holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
- 13noun
the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
- 14noun
the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
- 15verb
censure severely or angrily
"The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"
"The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"
- 16verb
talk incessantly and tiresomely
Synonyms
- 17verb
talk socially without exchanging too much information
"the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
- 18verb
chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
"He jawed his bubble gum"
"Chew your food and don't swallow it!"
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