lantern-jawed en · ADJ
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.
He was very thin and lantern-jawed. He dared not meet his own eyes in the mirror; he never looked at himself.
1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 15”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab.
1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 1, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 21:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lantern jawed | alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (4)
ga lomleicneach (having a protruding or jutting lower jaw) · ro fălcos (having a protruding or jutting lower jaw) · ga corránach (having a protruding or jutting lower jaw) · su cameuh (having a protruding or jutting lower jaw)