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LANTERN-JAWED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lantern-jawed mean?
• LANTERN-JAWED (adjective)
The adjective LANTERN-JAWED has 1 sense:
1. having a protruding jaw giving the face a gaunt appearance
Familiarity information: LANTERN-JAWED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a protruding jaw giving the face a gaunt appearance
Similar:
hypognathous; prognathic; prognathous (having a projecting lower jaw)
Context examples
He directed his eyes at me in that sidelong glance again, and he made his face very lantern-jawed, for the greater convenience of scraping, as he answered: Oh dear, I am not referring to the Doctor! Oh no, poor man! I mean Mr. Maldon!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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