jaw-jutting

English

Alternative forms

• jawjutting

Adjective

jaw-jutting (comparative more jaw-jutting, superlative most jaw-jutting)

1. Having one’s lower jaw protruding forward
2. (figuratively) determined, dogged, strong-willed, defiant
   • 1954, Lars Lawrence (pseudonym of Philip Stevenson), Morning, Noon, and Night, New York: Putnam, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 147,^[1]

     What he called her “genius” for diplomacy, her tolerance of the precious sensitivities of intellectuals, was as useless in his rough-and-tumble relations with goons and jailers as his jaw-jutting aggressions would be in her mannered and scrupulous artistic circle.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 43, in Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson:

     Up on the Gianicolo the Jewish stallholders sold metal replicas of St. Peter’s and Romulus and Remus and jawjutting pictures of the Duce.

   • 2011 November 21, Peter Travers, “A Dangerous Method”, in Rolling Stone‎^[2]:

     The actors give it their all, especially Knightley, whose jaw-jutting, heavily accented and unfairly criticized portrayal gives the film its fighting spirit.

   • 2016 February, Gary Kemp, “Drama’s pause célèbre”, in GQ‎^[3]:

     Harold was different: stylishly clad in black and often in sunglasses, he was a man’s man, a proper bloke, a whiskey-drinking, women-loving, sweary, jaw-jutting fella, brought up on the hard, war-bittne streets of Hackney […]