Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
lockjaw .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Meanwhile, the ever locked-jaw pitbull, Norman Baker MP has been asking questions of the House of Commons Commission, which the Speaker Chairs and where, if the taxpayer was paying his Carter Ruck bill would be.
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This seasonable retort cured the garrulity of the patient, and gave him a locked-jaw till the stage arrived at the Royal Exchange.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827
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He has had it in his head for a good while to write a 'Life of Cromwell,' and has been sitting for months back in a mess of great dingy folios, the very look of which is like to give me locked-jaw.
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In other respects, however, they are more serious than ordinary cuts, being often followed by inflammation, mortification, fever, and in some cases by locked-jaw.
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In other respects, however, they are more serious than ordinary cuts, being often followed by inflammation, mortification, fever, and in some cases by locked-jaw.
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A temporary locked-jaw would have been felt a blessing.
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A temporary locked-jaw would have been felt a blessing.
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A temporary locked-jaw would have been felt a blessing.
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Dr. Mair's, and remained there; for it was not thought safe to move me; they feared inflammation, and they feared locked-jaw.
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-- In cramps, locked-jaw, spasms or colic, it seldom fails to give speedy relief, producing great relaxations of muscular powers, and unusual prostration of
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