Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scolding; a vituperative quarrel.
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Examples
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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
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This life is too beautiful, if it is looked at right, to waste time in jowering.
Dixie Hart 1888
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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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