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单词 jawbone
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jawbonen.

Brit. /ˈdʒɔːbəʊn/, U.S. /ˈdʒɔˌboʊn/, /ˈdʒɑˌboʊn/
Forms: Also jaw-bone.
Etymology: < jaw n.1 + bone n.1
1. Any bone of the jaws; spec. each of the two forming the lower jaw in most mammals, or the whole bone formed by their combination in others.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > jawbones
jaw1382
jawbone1490
maxillary1826
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > jawbones > lower
jowlOE
chin-bonec1000
cheek boneOE
chaft-bonea1300
mandible?a1425
chawle-bone1430
jawbone1490
chaw-bone1546
choule1573
chap1575
mandibula1704
inferior maxilla1846
submaxilla1877
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxvi. 562 He gaff constans soo grete a stroke vpon the ere, that he bare it awaye wyth all the iawe bone.
1551 Bible (Matthew's) Judges xv. 15 He founde a iaw-bone of a rotten asse..and slewe a thousande men therewith.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §750 The Iaw-Bones haue no Marrow Seuered, but a little Pulpe of Marrow diffused.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 129. ⁋7 It [a tooth] belong'd to the Jaw-Bone of a Saint.
1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xx. 104 The Chinese..appear to have broad cheeks with projecting jaw-bones.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xvii. 190 The javelin entered underneath the ear By the jaw-bone.
1900 N.E.D. at Jaw-bone Mod. A pair of whale's jaw-bones forming a gateway.
2. An animal's jawbone used as a musical instrument; also, castanets or a jew's harp.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > bones
bone1600
snapper1605
knick-knack1650
marrowbones1714
rattle-bones1819
jawbone1844
knicky-knackers1876
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > castanets
snapper1605
castanet1647
knocker1648
crotaloa1682
knacker1691
crotalum1728
snip-snap1736
jawbone1844
crotal1850
clave1928
crotale1938
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > Jews' harp
Jew's harp1481
Jew's trump1481
trumpc1550
juice harp1685
jaw harp1752
stang1808
guimbard1830
jawbone1844
Lochaber trump1863
mouth organ1877
mouth-harp1968
1790 W. Beckford Descriptive Acct. Jamaica II. 387 Their musical instruments..consist of..the jaw-bone of an animal, from which is produced a harsh and disagreeable sound.]
1844 in C. Cist Cincinnati Misc. (1845) I. 14/2 Fowler..found the truant..at a dance house..playing the jaw bones or Castanets.
1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. v. 46 By the end of the 1880s New Orleans Negro musicians were no longer playing jawbones, hide-covered casks, or bamboo tubes.
1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 109 Jawbone, jawbone of a mule, ass, cow or other domestic animal used as a rattle. A North American plantation instrument. The jawbone was also struck or played with a nail or length of iron.
3. Credit. North American (originally Canadian) slang.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit
creance1399
trust1509
credence?a1513
credit1542
tick1668
strap1828
jawbone1862
sock1874
cred1973
1862 Times 21 Oct. 9/4 Individuals who, in digger's parlance, live on jawbone (credit).
1885 A. S. Hill From Home to Home 413 His ready money gone, he has nothing to live on but ‘jawbone’, i.e. credit.
1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 33 Jawbone, credit.
1970 New Yorker 31 Oct. 130/3 A young Canadian..started this film on a small grant..and apparently finished it on jawbone and by deferring processing costs.
1971 A. P. McInnes Dunlevy 54 No jaw-bone credit is allowed and all bets must be matched with goods.

Derivatives

jawboning n. U.S. slang name applied to a policy, first associated with the administration of President Lyndon Johnson (1963–1969), of urging management and union leaders to adopt a policy of restraint in wage and price negotiations. Also in extended use.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions
protection1719
co-operation1817
tariff-reform1859
monetary union1866
border protection1875
rationalization1875
tariffication1892
tariffade1904
inflationism1919
NEP1923
war communism1928
voodoo economics1930
substantivism1931
sterilization1938
deficit spending1941
deficit financing1943
tax-and-spend1956
indexation1960
stop-go1964
incomes policy1965
scala mobile1965
quantitative easing1966
jawboning1969
Nixonomics1969
developmentalism1970
degrowth1971
inflation-proofing1973
NEB1973
dollarization1982
fiscal engineering1982
Rogernomics1985
1969 Time 10 Oct. 57 As for jawboning, Nixon's Republican advisers consider it unfair and almost immoral to single out individual companies or industries.
1970 Daily Tel. 19 June 15 Policy will almost certainly concentrate on ‘jawboning’, the American tactic of trying belatedly to talk both sides of industry out of outlandish wage and price increases.
1970 Harper's Mag. Mar. 48 Lecturing business and labor on their responsibilities to hold down prices and wages—jawboning as it was called in the Johnson Administration—has been foregone.
1970 Times 7 Nov. 7/1 He criticized the Nixon Administration's decision on coming to office to drop the practice of ‘jawboning’, or presidential persuasion, on the prices and wages front.
jawbone v. [as a back-formation]
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [verb (intransitive)] > practise or advocate specific policies
co-operate1830
tariff1909
deflate1919
revalue1925
inflate1940
jawbone1966
reflate1971
1966 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. iv. 2 Every price increase that happens to catch the public's eye must be ‘jawboned’ to death by the Government.
1969 Time 19 Sept. 32 Since June, Feather has been jawboning his union chiefs on the virtues of labor discipline on the shop floor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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