jawbone

See also: jaw-bone and jaw bone

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

jaw +‎ bone

Noun

jawbone (plural jawbones)

The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.
Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw.
(singular or plural, music) A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.

Synonyms

(the bone of the lower jaw): inferior maxillary bone, lower jaw, mandible, submaxilla
(any bone in the lower or upper jaw): dentary, dentary bone, maxilla

Derived terms

jawboneist

Translations

bone of the lower jaw

Catalan: mandíbula f
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: alaleuanluu (fi), leukaluu (fi)
French: mâchoire inférieure f, mandibule (fr) f
Greek: κάτω γνάθος f (káto gnáthos)
Hungarian: állkapocscsont (hu)
Malay: tulang rahang, rahang bawah, mandibel
Portuguese: mandíbula (pt) f, queixo (pt) m
Russian: че́люстная кость f (čéljustnaja kostʹ), че́люсть (ru) f (čéljustʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: pìos ìosal a' ghuib m

Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: чељуст f

Roman: čeljust (sh) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: crjono n
Spanish: mandíbula (es) f
Swedish: underkäksben
Tagalog: sihang
Walloon: badjawe (wa) f, babetch m
Yiddish: קינביין‎‎ m (kinbeyn)

any of the bones in the jaw

Brunei Bisaya: ajai
Central Melanau: tuleang ingaih
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: kaaksbeen n
Finnish: leuan luu
French: mâchoire (fr) f
German: Kiefer (de) m, Kieferknochen (de) m
Greek: γνάθος (el) f (gnáthos)
Hungarian: állkapocscsont (hu)

Korean: 턱뼈 (ko) (teok-ppyeo), (obsolete) 거흠 (geoheum)
Kurdish: cêlefek‎‎
Malay: tulang rahang, tulang pengancing, tulang bercagak
Portuguese: mandíbula (pt) f
Scottish Gaelic: peirceall m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: crjono n
Swedish: käkben n
Walloon: djawe (wa) f, mashale (wa) f

Verb

jawbone (third-person singular simple present jawbones, present participle jawboning, simple past and past participle jawboned)

To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate.

Translations

to persuade

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

Finnish: puhua ympäri (fi), taivutella (fi)
Russian: please add this translation if you can

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