单词 | lantern-jaws |
释义 | lantern-jawsn. Long thin jaws, giving a hollow appearance to the cheek. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [noun] > types of cheek chuff1530 bladder chops1549 piper's cheeks1602 reds1616 lockram jaws1682 trumpet-cheek1693 lantern-jaws1711 lantern-face1795 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 163 Hongur..buffetede the Brutiner aboute bothe his chekes; He lokede lyk a lanterne al his lyf after.] 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 173. ¶5 A Plowman..being very lucky in a Pair of long Lanthorn-Jaws, wrung his face into..an hideous Grimace. 1778 J. Wolcot Poetic Epist. Reviewers in Wks. (1812) I. 3 The censure dire my lantern jaws will rue. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. vi. 139 His lantern jaws and long chin assumed the appearance of a pair of nut-crackers. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxix. 255 Drink yourself, and light up your lantern jaws, old boy. Derivatives lantern-jawed adj. having lantern-jaws. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [adjective] > types of cheek > having blob-cheeked1552 bright-cheekeda1560 plum-cheeked1598 chub-faced1602 white-cheekedc1602 chuffy1611 lantern-jawed1699 lockram-jawed1699 blubber-cheeked1711 chub-cheeked1715 lank-jawed1778 apple-faced1781 chubby-faced1826 apple-cheeked1827 lank-cheeked1838 bag-cheeked1839 poke-cheeked1843 maiden-cheeked1866 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Lantern jaw'd, a very lean, thin faced Fellow. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 372 A Lanthorn-Jaw'd Woman, with a Hatchet-Face. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ii. 30 To give himself a lantern-jawed look. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1699 |
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