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say it: jaw
jaw is a verb and noun meaning "talk socially without exchanging too much information". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɔ/ — jaw. It carries 7 recorded senses.
talk socially without exchanging too much information
“the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”
censure severely or angrily
“The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car”
“The deputy ragged the Prime Minister”
“The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup”
the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jaw come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.