| 单词 | to hold or stop one's jaw |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hold or stop one's jaw 6. Vulgar loquacity; esp. ‘cheeky’ or impudent talk; also, colloquial, a talk, a speech, a lecture, an address; a long talk, incessant chatter. Frequent in the phrases to hold or stop one's jaw (where the sense may at first have been literal, as in to open, loose, or work one's jaws: cf. also to hold one's tongue). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] overspeecheOE tongue-itch1540 multiloquy1542 long tongue1557 garrulity1581 slipperiness1589 polylogy1602 volubility1602 loquacity1603 lubricity1603 tonguiness1607 overspeakinga1610 talkativeness1609 philology1623 tongue-vice1628 glibness1633 futility1640 linguacity1656 garrulousness1727 linguosity1727 loquaciousness1727 multiloquiousness1727 jaw1748 multiloquence1760 flippancy1789 verbal diarrhoea1808 magpiety1832 big mouth1834 pleniloquence1838 chattiness1876 open-mouthedness1883 gabbiness1887 garrulance1890 irreticence1919 talkiness1934 ear-bashing1945 mee-mawing1974 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech sauce malapert1529 petulancea1652 jaw1748 snash1786 slack-jaw1797 slang1805 gob1807 lip1821 cheek1825 slack1825 sass1841 back-talk1858 back sass1883 mouth1891 slack lip1899 back-chat1901 chin1902 slop1952 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat confabulationc1450 device1490 chat1573 tittle-tattle?c1640 small talk1650 confab1701 chit-chat1710 jaw1748 small-talking1786 prose1787 rap1787 coze1804 talky-talky1812 clack1813 chit-chatting1823 cozey1837 gossip1849 mardlea1852 yarn1857 conflab1873 chinwag1879 chopsing1879 cooze1880 chatting1884 schmoozing1884 talky-talk1884 pitch1888 schmooze1895 coosy1903 wongi1929 yap1930 kibitz1931 natter1943 old talk1956 jaw-jaw1958 yacking1959 ole talk1964 rapping1967 the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > vulgar or cheeky jaw1748 the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter chirma800 clappingc1386 glavera1400 clapa1420 clackc1440 blabc1460 clattera1500 babble?a1525 babblery1532 pratery1533 clitter-clatter1535 by-talk?1551 prattle1555 prittle-prattle1556 twittle-twattle1565 cacquet1567 prate?1574 prattlement1579 babblement1595 gibble-gabble1600 gabble1602 twattlea1639 tolutiloquence1656 pratement1657 gaggle1668 leden1674 cackle1676 twit-twat1677 clash1685 chit-chat1710 chatter-chitter1711 chitter-chatter1712 palavering1732 hubble-bubble1735 palaver1748 rattle1748 gum1751 mag1778 gabber1780 gammon1781 gash1787 chattery1789 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 yabble1808 clacket1812 talky-talky1812 potter1818 yatter1827 blue streak1830 gabblement1831 psilologya1834 chin-music1834 patter1841 jaw1842 chatter1851 brabble1861 tongue-work1866 yacker1882 talkee1885 chelp1891 chattermag1895 whitter1897 burble1898 yap1907 clatfart1913 jive1928 logorrhœa1935 waffle1937 yackety-yacking1953 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 motormouth1976 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. iii. 15 None of your jaw, you swab,..else I shall trim your laced jacket for you. 1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris i. 17 Hold your Jaw and dispatch. a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 58 Let's have no more of your jaw! 1800 Ld. Metcalfe in Fortn. Rev. (1885) June 757 Tremendous jaw from my tutor. 1836 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 94 A rich jaw between..Read and Buckle, who met afloat after a previous quarrel. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet ii, in New Monthly Mag. June 272 Parliamentary jabber and jaw. 1842 F. J. Furnivall in F. J. Furnivall: Personal Rec. (1911) p. xi Had a jaw with Young, which ended, as it began, in nothing. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 123/1 Jaw, abusive language. 1861 D. G. Rossetti Lett. (1965) II. 387 We would go to a theatre afterwards or else have a jaw here. 1868 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) I. 354 When they talk of right and law, we bid them hold their jaw. 1888 D. C. Murray in Illustr. London News Christmas No. 11/2 So long as a man has the sense to hold his jaw at the right time. 1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion i. 115 Come with me now and lets have a jaw over some supper. 1964 Guardian 2 Mar. 7/6 So before the show starts the promoter gives me a bit of a jaw. a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) viii. 79 He invited the two of us into the billiard-room of Grafton House..for a ‘jaw’. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Apr. 420/3 Without these things, committee work is just endless jaw and empty substitute. < as lemmas |
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