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Definition of Jawing
1. n. Scolding; clamorous or abusive talk.
Definition of Jawing
1. Verb. (present participle of jaw) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jawing
1. jaw [v] - See also: jaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jawing
Literary usage of Jawing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1874)
"Throughout his discourse jawing Jackson had been smoking, but having now finished
his pipe, he knocked the ashes out of it, and rose from his seat, ..."
2. Sailors' Language: A Collection of Sea-terms and Their Definitions by William Clark Russell (1883)
"jawing-tackle.—Capacity of talking. jawing-tacks.—A speaker is said to have his
jawing-tacks aboard when he talks rapidly and at length. Jaw-rope. ..."
3. A Digest of the Laws Relating to the Game of this Kingdom: Containing All by John Paul (1775)
"... that three claws of the fere-foot (halt be cut off by the fkin. But from
henceforth fuch jawing of dogs (hall not be, but in places where it hath been ..."
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