10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JAWBATION»
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Provincial Words and Expressions current in Lincolnshire
Jaw, Jawbation.—Voluble talk, scolding. Ex. She nearly drove me scranny with
her jawbation. Jaw-breakers.—Words diflicult to pronounce, words of many
syllables. Jaw-him-over.—Talk him over, by talking to persuade a person to
espouse a ...
John Ellett BROGDEN, 1866
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ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
(Dialectically rendered as jawbation, as if derived from jaw, jawing)]. vi. &vt. jobe
= to rebuke, reprove, or reprimand, in a long and tedious harangue; to lecture. [<
the ancient Hebrew patriarch, Job, in allusion to the lengthy reproofs addressed ...
James L. Reynolds, MD, 2014
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Wells, The History ofMr Polly, 1910): adj. ex:jawbation. (Also jobation, q.v.) A
general confabulation: coll. and dial.: C.19—20. Ex:—2. A scolding: coll.: C.18-20
. Cf.: jawbone, v. To urge, as by political, trades union, leaders, etc., to comply
with ...
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The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review
“Stop that jawbation, Gus; and, Di hton, tell your niggers to begin. \'V%at are
those queer-looking weaons they have in their paws ?_they ook like a heathen
marrow-spoon, with sharp edges, and pointed at the tip." “ Those heathen-
looking ...
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The amusing songster, ed. by J.E. Carpenter
They now had a loud altercation, At a butcher's 'twas very unmeet, She gave him
a jolly jawbation, Then summoned him up to Bow-street. Her case to the justice
she stated, She said 'twould have angered a saint, And bitter as gall she related ...
Joseph Edwards Carpenter, 1866
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Slang. A dictionary of the turf, the ring, the chase, the ...
Chickendom—Chick-lane, alias West-street, is merged in Saffron-down-derry—
which see. Civil jaw—Jawbation of two or more, in the course of which each
gives the other a decent sort of character. Ex. gr. lst. ' Why don't you pay your
tailor ?
Jon BEE (pseud. [i.e. John Badcock.]), 1823
The old fellow's troubles were, however, far from being at an end : I heard the
wife's tongue, the use of which she had recovered with her senses, giving him a
storm of abuse, what they call in Connaught jawbation, as long as they were
within ...
Peter Paradox (pseud.), 1860
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Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
Shouts of "Yooi over, over, over hounds—try for him—yoicks—wind him! good
dogs—yoicks! stir him up—have at him there!"—here interrupted the jawbation,
and the whip rode off shaking his sides with laughter. "Your horse has got a stone
in ...
Robert Smith Surtees, 2012
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Slang: a dictionary of the turf, the ring, the chase, the ...
Civil jaw — Jawbation of two or more, in the course of which each gives the other
a decent sort of character. Ex. gr. 1st. ' Why don't you pay your tailor?' 2nd. ' Your
face is like a jail-door, dotted all over, and your nose stands for the knocker.
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The New Sporting Magazine
At length we got it, and dividing the plunder I recommended Jorrocks to go and
pay his bill, give the Countess a good jawbation, and get his traps away to my
hotel, and putting him into a cab I took leave of him for the time. It so happened
that ...
