Meanings
alternative lantern jawed
- not comparableHaving a protruding or jutting lower jaw.
He was very thin and lantern-jawed. He dared not meet his own eyes in the mirror; he never looked at himself.
1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 15”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC1 more example
A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab.
1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 1, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 21
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving a protruding jaw giving the face a gaunt appearance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Irish corránach, lomleicneach
- corránachhaving a protruding or jutting lower jaw
- lomleicneachhaving a protruding or jutting lower jaw
Romanian fălcos
- fălcoshaving a protruding or jutting lower jaw
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