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English
Etymology
Earliest known use is from 1848 (see quotation).
Adjective
wapper-jawed (comparative more wapper-jawed, superlative most wapper-jawed)
- Having a projecting underjaw.
1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 5:Fancy an heir, that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hare-lipped, wapper-jawed, car rot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, — my case was yet worse.