Meanings
plural jawboxes · alternative jaw-box
- ScotlanddatedA tenement sink.
She snatches towels from the laundry basket — two, three, four —soaks them at the jawbox sink and lays them along the bottom of the kitchen door.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 51 more example
After a week he had to accept that he was growing a black beard, not because he wanted one, but because he could think of no way of shaving. There was a jaw-box in the tiny kitchen but no taps.
1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal (chapter 3, p.90 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)Synonyms: jaw-hole
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA tenement sink.
Origin
From jaw + box, from jaw (“to pour, throw out, splash”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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