Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A scolding; a vituperative quarrel.

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Examples

  • Instead of jowering, she would give him a good scrubbing, comb out his matted hair, and clean him up generally and thoroughly.

    Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

  • This life is too beautiful, if it is looked at right, to waste time in jowering.

    Dixie Hart 1888

  • Then another team tries, and so on, the competitors jawing and jowering at each other with: "Ah, that ain't fair!

    Back Home Eugene Wood 1891

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