blue-jawed

English

Adjective

blue-jawed (comparative more blue-jawed, superlative most blue-jawed)

1. Showing a stubble of unshaved beard.
   • 1971, John Updike, Rabbit Redux, New York: RosettaBooks, page 102:

     The walls hold tinted photographs of himself and Mim in high school, taken he remembers by a pushy pudgy little blue-jawed crook who called himself a Studio and weaseled his way into the building every spring and made them line up in the auditorium and wet-comb their hair...

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, “14 November Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 689–690:

     Lay there and flirted with the blue-jawed paramedic leaning over him, certain bawdy entendres on expressions like vital signs and dilation until the paramedic radioed ahead to Cambridge City's E. Room to cancel the crash-cart.

2. Having a bruised jaw.