Earliest known use is from 1825 (see quotations). <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span> <span class="searchmatch">jaw</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span> jaws) A projecting underjaw. [from early 19th c.] 1825 December 2, X. O.,...
<span class="searchmatch">wapper</span> jaws plural of <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span> <span class="searchmatch">jaw</span>...
known use is from 1848 (see quotation). <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span>-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span>-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span>-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span>) Having a projecting underjaw. [from mid-19th...
of <span class="searchmatch">jaw</span>. blue-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> jimber-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> jut-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> lantern-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> lantern <span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> long-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> spider pig-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> skewjawed slack-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> square-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span>-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> whomper-jawed...
scarf wappering in the wind. <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span> <span class="searchmatch">jaw</span> <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span>-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span> William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “<span class="searchmatch">wapper</span>”, in The Century Dictionary […]...
someone's jaw dropped stickjaw trap-<span class="searchmatch">jaw</span> ant trap <span class="searchmatch">jaw</span> ant underjaw upper <span class="searchmatch">jaw</span> <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span> <span class="searchmatch">jaw</span> with one's <span class="searchmatch">jaw</span> in one's lap bone of the <span class="searchmatch">jaw</span> bone itself with the teeth and...
an alteration of earlier whopperjawed, wopperjawed, <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span>-<span class="searchmatch">jawed</span>, ultimately related to <span class="searchmatch">wapper</span> <span class="searchmatch">jaw</span> (“a projecting underjaw”) (1825). (Received Pronunciation)...