Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as gimbal-jawed.

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Examples

  • She stood in the center of the big dingy parlor, gazing round at the grimed chromos until Mrs. Wylie entered -- a thin middle-aged woman with small brown eyes set wide apart, a perpetual frown, and a chin so long and so projected that she was almost jimber-jawed.

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

  • They were a guard, flanking on each side an old "jimber-jawed, wobble-sided" barouche, drawn by two raw-boned horses.

    A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

  • She stood in the center of the big dingy parlor, gazing round at the grimed chromos until Mrs. Wylie entered -- a thin middle-aged woman with small brown eyes set wide apart, a perpetual frown, and a chin so long and so projected that she was almost jimber-jawed.

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889

  • "jimber-jawed" -- that is, her lower teeth shut a little outside her upper.

    Duffels Edward Eggleston 1869

  • I must confess I wouldn't have been so eager about it if she had been jimber-jawed and cross-eyed, but, by the great jumping jingo, I'd say be my long-lost cousin now if she had a wooden leg, a glass eye and china teeth! "

    The Comings of Cousin Ann Emma Speed Sampson 1907

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