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1. Of animals having jaws of a specified type

1. Talk socially without exchanging too much information
   "the men were sitting in the cafe and jawing";
   - chew the fat [informal], shoot the breeze [N. Amer, informal], chat, confabulate, confab [informal], chitchat [informal], chit-chat [informal], chatter, chaffer, natter [informal], gossip, claver [UK, dialect], visit [N. Amer, informal], chew the rag [informal], gas [informal], gab [informal]
    
2. Talk incessantly and tiresomely
   - yack [informal], yack away [informal], rattle on [informal], yap away [informal], yak [informal]
    
3. Bite repeatedly with the teeth, typically to grind food before swallowing it
   "He jawed his bubble gum";
   - chew, masticate, manducate
    
4. Censure severely or angrily
   - call on the carpet [US, informal], take to task, rebuke, rag [informal], trounce, lecture, reprimand, dress down [informal], call down [informal], scold, chide, berate, bawl out [informal], remonstrate, chew out [N. Amer, informal], chew up [N. Amer, informal], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer, informal], wig [Brit, informal]

See also: long-jawed, square-jawed

Type of: converse, criticise [Brit], criticize, damn [informal], discourse, grate, grind, knock [informal], mouth, pick apart, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Antonym: jawless

Encyclopedia: Jawed