blue-jawed
English
Adjective
blue-jawed (comparative more blue-jawed, superlative most blue-jawed)
- showing a stubble of unshaved beard
- 1971, John Updike, Rabbit Redux, New York: RosettaBooks, page 102:
- The walls hold tinted photographs of himself and Mim in high school, taken he remembers by a pushy pudgy little blue-jawed crook who called himself a Studio and weaseled his way into the building every spring and made them line up in the auditorium and wet-comb their hair...
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, “14 November Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment”, in Infinite Jest: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 689-90:
- Lay there and flirted with the blue-jawed paramedic leaning over him, certain bawdy entendres on expressions like vital signs and dilation until the paramedic radioed ahead to Cambridge City's E. Room to cancel the crash-cart.
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- having a bruised jaw