wapper-jawed

English

Etymology

Ealiest known use is from 1848 (see quotation).

Adjective

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

1. Having a projecting underjaw. [from mid-19th c.]
   • 1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 5:

     Fancy an heir, that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hare-lipped, wapper-jawed, car rot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, — my case was yet worse.

Related terms

• wapper jaw
• whopperjawed
• whomperjawed