Lexicographical Neighbors of Crackjaw
Literary usage of Crackjaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"Each man may crack of that which was his own.' Farrer's Oteen Glendower.
Crack in [kraak-in], boasting ; tall talk. crackjaw-wods [kraak-jau-- ..."
2. The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political by David Masson (1881)
"... soldier with helmet unlaced, Ay, or the man of law, grown fat with ten years
of a lawsuit, Mouthing his crackjaw words forth to the ignorant mob. ..."
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