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jaw

noun

1 he sustained a broken jaw:

jawbone, lower jaw, mandible;

maxilla, upper jaw.

2 (jaws) the whale seized a struggling seal pup in its jaws:

mouth, maw, muzzle, lips;

informal chops.

3 informal we ought to have a jaw:

chat, talk, conversation, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, heart-to-heart, tête-à-tête, blether, blather;

conference, discussion, dialogue, exchange;

Indian adda;

informal gas, confab, gabber;

British, informal natter, chinwag, rabbit;

Scottish, & Northern English, informal crack;

North American, informal rap, bull session, gabfest;

Australian, informal convo;

formal confabulation;

rare colloquy.

verb

informal

Tommaso was the type to jaw about whatever new scheme had taken his fancy:

chat, talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on;

communicate;

British talk nineteen to the dozen;

Scottish, & Irish slabber;

informal gas, have a confab, chew the rag, chew the fat, yap, yak, yackety-yak, yabber, gabber, yatter, yammer;

British, informal natter, witter, rabbit, chunter, waffle, have a chinwag, chinwag;

North American, informal shoot the breeze, visit;

Australian, New Zealand, informal mag;

formal confabulate;

archaic twaddle, twattle, clack, claver.

word links	jaw
mandible, maxillary relating to the jaw

jaw Oxford Dictionary of English