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Is jaw a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word jaw is a Scrabble US word. The word jaw is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is jaw a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word jaw is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

J8A1W4

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Yes. The word jaw is a Words With Friends word. The word jaw is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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3-letter words (1 found)

JAW,

2-letter words (2 found)

AW,JA,

You can make 3 words from jaw according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of jaw

jaw ajw jwa wja awj waj

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Definitions and meaning of jaw

jaw

Etymology 1

From Middle English jowe~joue~jaue, seemingly borrowed from Old French jowe~joue~joe, itself from Vulgar Latin *gauta.

The OED argues that, since Chaucer rhymed jowe with clowe (“claw”), the tonic vowel was not /uː/ and so jowe does not correspond to the French word. (On the other hand, it raises no such objection against the derivation of paw from Old French powe~poue~poe, from *pauta.) It is not clear that Middle English ever borrowed an Old French word in which /ɔw/ had already turned to /u/. If the normal modern English outcome is taken to be the /əʊ/ of clove, escrow, hoe, mow, and soldier (implying a Middle English /ɔw/), then the /ɔː/ of jaw and paw (implying a Middle English /aw/) may be explained as the result of either borrowing from Middle English dialects that merged /ɔw/ into /aw/ or blending with semantically adjacent words like chaule (“jaw”) and clawe (“claw”).

The OED, with reluctance, offers the theory that the original Middle English form could have been an unattested *chowe, from an also-unattested Old English *ċēowe (from Proto-West Germanic *keuwā). /t͡ʃ-/ > /d͡ʒ-/ is not unheard-of; cf. jam, jar, jarm, jitter, and jowl. The OED also note that a variant chaw is in fact documented in English, but only from 1530 onward, some 150 years after the j- forms.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: jô, IPA(key): /d͡ʒɔː/
  • (US) enPR: jô, IPA(key): /d͡ʒɔ/
    • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /d͡ʒɑ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː

Noun

jaw (plural jaws)

  1. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
  2. The part of the face below the mouth.
  3. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance.
  4. A notch or opening.
  5. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
  6. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.
  7. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
  8. (slang, dated) Impudent, abusive or worthless talk.
  9. (slang) Axle guard.
  11. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
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See also
  • chin

Verb

jaw (third-person singular simple present jaws, present participle jawing, simple past and past participle jawed)

  1. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
    • 1933, Ethel Lina White, The Spiral Staircase (Some Must Watch), Chapter 4, [1]
      He built the Summit, so as to have no neighbours. And Lady Warren couldn't abide It. She was always jawing him about it, and they had one awful quarrel, in his study.
  2. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
  3. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
  4. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.

Etymology 2

Uncertain, see Jew's harp for more.

Adjective

jaw (not comparable)

  1. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump)

References

  • Angus Stevenson, Maurice Waite, Concise Oxford English Dictionary: Luxury Edition (2011), page 761.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “jaw”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • “jaw”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • “jou(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

North Frisian

Pronoun

jaw

  1. your (second personal pronoun plural possessive)

See also

  • jam

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jaf/
  • Rhymes: -af
  • Syllabification: jaw

Noun

jaw f

  1. genitive plural of jawa

Verb

jaw

  1. second-person singular imperative of jawić

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