whomperjawed

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /wɒm.pə(ɹ).d͡ʒɔːd/    美 /wɑm.pɚ.d͡ʒɔd/|[wɑ̃m.pɚ.d͡ʒɑɒ̯d]

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Askew, amiss; not fitting, moving or working properly. Southern-US,Texas,dialectal,especially
    — The pending bill as it stands presents another whomper-jawed, lopsided, cross-eyed picture.

词形变化

whomper-jawed alternative whopperjawed alternative

词源

Ealiest known use is from 1942 (see quotations), and it was first mentioned in 1931. Possibly from an alteration of earlier whopperjawed, wopperjawed, wapper-jawed, ultimately related to wapper jaw (“a projecting underjaw”) (1825).
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