jawfaln

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English

Adjective

jawfaln (comparative more jawfaln, superlative most jawfaln)

  1. Nonstandard form of jawfallen.
    • 1660 May 14, “Britains Triumph”, in The Return of the King: An Anthology of English Poems Commemorating the Restoration of Charles II:
      To fire the houses? and the Goldsmiths plunder? Poor Arthur's jawfaln, is not that a wonder?
    • 1662, John Graunt, Bills of Mortality, Chapter 1 "Of the Bills of Mortality, their beginning, and progress":
      Jaundies — 43
      Jawfaln — 8
      Impostume — 74