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I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.
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Meaning of "slack-jawed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SLACK-JAWED

slack-jawed  [ˌslækˈdʒɔːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLACK-JAWED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Slack-Jawed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SLACK-JAWED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of slack-jawed in the English dictionary

The definition of slack-jawed in the dictionary is with your mouth open. Other definition of slack-jawed is very surprised.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SLACK-JAWED


abroad
əˈbrɔːd
accord
əˈkɔːd
afford
əˈfɔːd
award
əˈwɔːd
billboard
ˈbɪlˌbɔːd
board
bɔːd
bored
bɔːd
broad
brɔːd
Claude
klɔːd
cord
kɔːd
dashboard
ˈdæʃˌbɔːd
ford
fɔːd
fraud
frɔːd
keyboard
ˈkiːˌbɔːd
leaderboard
ˈliːdəˌbɔːd
lord
lɔːd
record
ˈrɛkɔːd
square-jawed
ˈskweəˌdʒɔːd
sword
sɔːd
ward
wɔːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLACK-JAWED

slabbery
slabbiness
slabbing
slabby
slablike
slabstone
slack
slack suit
slack water
slacken
slackener
slackening
slacker
slacklining
slackly
slackness
slacks
slacktivism
slacktivist
slactivism

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLACK-JAWED

awed
dewclawed
flawed
gewgawed
lantern-jawed
overawed
sawed
unawed
unclawed
unflawed
unthawed
zamzawed

Synonyms and antonyms of slack-jawed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «slack-jawed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SLACK-JAWED

Find out the translation of slack-jawed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of slack-jawed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «slack-jawed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

目瞪口呆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

con la boca abierta
570 millions of speakers

English

slack-jawed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सुस्त जावेद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الركود ، جاويد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отвисшей челюстью
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de queixo caído
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঢিলা-জাওয়েদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bouche bée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lemah-jawed
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Slack- Jawed
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

たるみ、顎
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

여유 턱
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Slack-jawed
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chùng - có hàm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மந்தமாக-தாடை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धीट-जांभळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gevşek çeneli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

a bocca aperta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

luzu szczękach
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

отвисшей щелепою
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

moale - dinți
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χαλαρό - jawed
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slap - Jawed
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slack Jawed
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

slakk - Jawed
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of slack-jawed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLACK-JAWED»

The term «slack-jawed» is regularly used and occupies the 72.304 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SLACK-JAWED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about slack-jawed

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QUOTES WITH «SLACK-JAWED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word slack-jawed.
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Katherine Boo
I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLACK-JAWED»

Discover the use of slack-jawed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to slack-jawed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke
THE SLACK-JAWED DRIBBLER drooled as he danced. In spite of his dribbling and drooling, he executed as fine a waltz as any man alive. His partners, fey ladies prone to fits of the vapours, learned to wear protective shawls, of plastic or  ...
Frank Key
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My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack ...
Conspiracy A violin which is following me In how many distant cities are they listening To its slack-jawed music? This Slack-jawed music? Each of ten thousand people playing it. It follows me like someone that hates me. Oh, my heart would ...
Jack Spicer, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian, 2010
3
Sally MacKenzie Bundle: The Naked Earl, The Naked Gentleman, ...
To admire the way...things...grow? How a sensitive plant can swell to quite a stalk —” “Speaking of bio-botany—” If Bennington wasn't going to stop Felicity—and since the man was staring slack-jawed at her, odds were good he wasn't—Parks  ...
Sally MacKenzie, 2011
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Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action
Both being slack-jawed and being happy are single-argument property predications. The clausal second argument with which these adjectives are paired in (46) and (47) is licensed by a construction rather than by the particular adjective.
John Bengson, Marc A. Moffett, 2011
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Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI
The security guard by the wall turns toward us and stares slack—jawed in disbelief and, after two seconds, reaches for the gun at his belt. The girl in the pink dress says, “Look at the man with the dark glasses, Mommy! His hat is stupid !
Michael L. McShaffry, 2009
6
Shadowland
Thenew manwas a greasy-looking, slack-jawed, bottom feeder.But he wasa greasy, slack-jawed, bottom feeder with ties toalab.Lucy wondered whatittook to getthat.He was also agreasy, slack- jawed, bottom feeder with a habit. And it looked ...
Pam Leonard, 2012
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God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the ...
Even when these shepherds were made of illuminated plastic, standing around in Christmas dioramas on my neighbor's lawn, their slack-jawed expressions of wonder appealed to me. Years later, having become literate enough to read a ...
David James Duncan, 2007
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Jesus Hates Zombies: Those Slack-Jaw Blues
A bonus story written by creator Stephen Lindsay and illustrated by artist Lauren Monardo is also included in this new edition. If you missed it the first time around, then this second-coming of JESUS HATES ZOMBIES is just what you need
Stephen Lindsay, 2009
9
Flesh & Bone
18. LILAH. sTARED. SLACK—JAWED. AT. THE. MOTORCYCLES. She had read about such vehicles in books, had seen abandoned ones on the roads, their bodies rusted and their drivers gone to wander the world as living dead. She had  ...
Jonathan Maberry, 2012
10
The Pirate Primer: Mastering the Language of Swashbucklers ...
(John Flint, Porto Bello Gold 83) slack-jawed [slarrk jawered/jawrred/jawt] foolish; dull; stupid; useless; lazy; weak-willed “Curse ya for breathin', you slack-jawed idiot!” (Joshamee Gibbs, “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”  ...
George Choundas, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLACK-JAWED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term slack-jawed is used in the context of the following news items.
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Watch Tom Cruise Channel Meat Loaf, the Weeknd in 'Lip Sync Battle'
Tom Cruise scorched The Tonight Show stage Monday night during an epic "Lip Sync Battle" that left host Jimmy Fallon wide-eyed and slack-jawed. The Mission ... «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»
2
Pixar Brings a Slack-Jawed Sense of Wonder to New The Good …
Liven up your evening conversations with V.F.'s afternoon e-mail blast. It's super-easy, and it's on the house! subscribe. Will be used in accordance with our ... «Vanity Fair, Jul 15»
3
2016 Scion iA first-drive – Slack-jawed sedan with Mazda zoom
Scion has decided the 18-35 demographic it's desperate to attract to is in need of an aspirational sports sedan, and the 2016 Scion iA is the result. Mouth of a ... «SlashGear, Jul 15»
4
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture dev doesn't want you to get your …
Creative designer of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Dan Pinchbeck, doesn't want to see any “slack-jawed” 'Halo faces' when people play the new game from ... «VG247, Jun 15»
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This is What Your Kid Looks Like While Staring Slack&Jawed At The …
This is What Your Kid Looks Like While Staring Slack-Jawed At The TV. Photographer Donna Stevens's series Idiot Box takes an alarming look at "the darker ... «Fast Company, Jun 15»
6
Oculus reveals the new Rift, a VR thing for bearded men to put on …
A bearded man goes slack-jawed with awe as he uses the Oculus Rift. (Photo: Oculus) A bearded man goes slack-jawed with awe as he uses the Oculus Rift. «A.V. Club, Jun 15»
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Slack-jawed Chinese farmers go long stocks
Slack-jawed Chinese farmers go long stocks. By Houses and Holes in China Economy. at 12:02 am on June 10, 2015 | 1 comment. This time it's different. «MacroBusiness, Jun 15»
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FOMO in the digital age
You sit slack-jawed swiping and swiping past dozens of movies you've seen/want to see/added to your queue all in the hopes of selecting one to watch. But that ... «Engadget, May 15»
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A Baffling Question: Women Attracted To ISIS
This slack-jawed befuddlement is truly hilarious to watch. "What? All women on earth DON'T want to be forced into men's workplaces with free birth control, and ... «Arutz Sheva, Feb 15»
10
Charlotte McKinney is the real star of the Super Bowl
Nearly nude, the buxom blonde struts through a farmers market, leaving men slack-jawed. “I love going all natural,” she purrs, opening wide to take a bite out of ... «New York Post, Feb 15»

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