The story
- Middle English · inherited fromchavylbone
- English todaychavel-bone
From Middle English chavylbone, chavyl bon (also as Middle English chawylbon, chawlbone, chawle boon, jawe bone > Early Modern English chawe bone, chaw-bone, jaw-bone > English jawbone), equivalent to chavel + bone. Doublet of jawbone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.