Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
gimbal-jawed .
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Examples
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She stood in the center of the big dingy parlor, gazing round at the grimed chromos until Mrs. Wylie entered -- a thin middle-aged woman with small brown eyes set wide apart, a perpetual frown, and a chin so long and so projected that she was almost jimber-jawed.
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They were a guard, flanking on each side an old "jimber-jawed, wobble-sided" barouche, drawn by two raw-boned horses.
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She stood in the center of the big dingy parlor, gazing round at the grimed chromos until Mrs. Wylie entered -- a thin middle-aged woman with small brown eyes set wide apart, a perpetual frown, and a chin so long and so projected that she was almost jimber-jawed.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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"jimber-jawed" -- that is, her lower teeth shut a little outside her upper.
Duffels Edward Eggleston 1869
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I must confess I wouldn't have been so eager about it if she had been jimber-jawed and cross-eyed, but, by the great jumping jingo, I'd say be my long-lost cousin now if she had a wooden leg, a glass eye and china teeth! "
The Comings of Cousin Ann Emma Speed Sampson 1907
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