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English
Etymology
dewlap + -ed
Adjective
dewlapped (not comparable)
- Having dewlaps (of a specified kind).
- yellow-dewlapped lizards
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :When we were boys, / Who would believe that there were mountaineers / Dewlapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them / Wallets of flesh?
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