jawbone

1. 1.

   talk idly or casually and in a friendly way

   Synonymsshmoozeshmooseschmoozeschmoose

   Broaderchew the fat

Other forms of jawbone

plural

jawbones·

past tense

jawboned·

present participle

jawboning·

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.

Questions about jawbone

What does jawbone mean?

jawbone means "the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jawbone?

jawbone has 2 syllables: jaw-bone. The stress falls on "jaw". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɔˌboʊn/.

What is another word for jawbone?

Close synonyms include lower jaw, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jawbone a common word?

jawbone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with jawbone?

9 words rhyme with jawbone. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.