How to pronounce“jaw”in English
advshowed there's really four areas that you feel it. The first area is in your body physically like the tightness in your body body which could be clenched
jaw. It could be like that fidgeting you see heart racing all the like fight orflight responses. The second way you feel it is in the mind self-doubt asking
yourself always am I good enough? Kind of double- guessing yourself running through worst case scenarios ruminating on your past mistakes. The third way is
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Definitions of “jaw”
One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
The part of the face below the mouth.
“His jaw dropped in amazement.”
To assail or abuse by scolding.
“1933, Ethel Lina White, The Spiral Staircase (Some Must Watch), Chapter 4, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300931.txt He built the Summit, so as to have no neighbours. And Lady Warren couldn't abide It. She was always jawing him about it, and they had one awful quarrel, in his study.”
To scold; to clamor.
“[…] he waked him, which put him in a main high passion, and he swore woundily at the lieutenant, and called him lousy Scotch son of a whore […], and swab, and lubber, whereby the lieutenant returned the salute, and they jawed together fore and aft a good spell, till at last the captain turned out, and, laying hold of a rattan, came athwart Mr. Bowling's quarter: whereby he told the captain that, if he was not his commander, he would heave him overboard […]”
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