| jaw | (noun) holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object | - |
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| (noun) the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth | - |
| (noun) the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth | - |
| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| (verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely | Synonyms: rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away |
| (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, manducate, masticate |
| jawan | (noun) (India) a private soldier or male constable | - |
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| jawbone | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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| (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
| jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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| (noun) a large round hard candy | - |
| jawed | (adjective) of animals having jaws of a specified type | - |
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| jawfish | (noun) small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes | - |
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| jawless | (adjective) of animals having no jaw | - |
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