lantern-jawed

See also: lantern jawed

English

Alternative forms

• lantern jawed

Adjective

lantern-jawed (not comparable)

1. Having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.
   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 15”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     He was very thin and lantern-jawed. He dared not meet his own eyes in the mirror; he never looked at himself.

   • 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 1, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 21:

     A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab.

Translations

having a protruding or jutting lower jaw

• Irish: corránach, lomleicneach
• Romanian: fălcos (ro)
• Sundanese: cameuh (su)