jawbone

See also: jaw-bone and jaw bone

English

Alternative forms

• jaw bone
• jaw-bone

Etymology

jaw +‎ bone

Noun

jawbone (countable and uncountable, plural jawbones)

1. (countable) The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.
2. (countable) Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw.
3. (countable, singular or plural, music) A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.
4. (uncountable, slang, archaic) Credit.
   • 1862, October 21, Times Correspondent

     We have a few persons whose pockets are to let—men who have more complaints than dollars—individuals who, in digger's parlance, live on jawbone (credit), and are always to be found at saloons; a class of men who, when they are here, wish themselves yonder, and when yonder, wish themselves back.

Synonyms

• (the bone of the lower jaw): inferior maxillary bone, lower jaw, mandible, submaxilla
• (any bone in the lower or upper jaw): dentary, dentary bone, maxilla

Derived terms

• jawboneist

Translations

bone of the lower jaw

• Catalan: mandíbula (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: alaleuanluu (fi), leukaluu (fi)
• French: mâchoire inférieure f, mandibule (fr) f
• Galician: queixada (gl) f, queixo (gl) m, mandíbula (gl) f
• Georgian: ყბის ძვალი (q̇bis ʒvali)
• Greek: κάτω γνάθος f (káto gnáthos)

  Ancient: σιαγών f (siagṓn)

• Hungarian: állkapocscsont (hu)
• Malay: tulang rahang, rahang bawah, mandibel
• Polish: żuchwa (pl) f, dolna szczęka f

• Portuguese: mandíbula (pt) f, queixo (pt) m
• Russian: че́люстная кость f (čéljustnaja kostʹ), че́люсть (ru) f (čéljustʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: pìos ìosal a' ghuib m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чељуст f

  Roman: čeljust (sh) f

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: crjono n

• Spanish: mandíbula (es) f
• Swedish: underkäksben
• Tagalog: sihang
• Walloon: badjawe (wa) f, babetch m
• Yiddish: קינביין‎ m (kinbeyn)

any of the bones in the jaw

• Afrikaans: kakebeen
• Brunei Bisaya: ajai
• Central Melanau: tuleang ingaih
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: kaaksbeen (nl) n
• Finnish: leuan luu
• French: mâchoire (fr) f
• Galician: queixada (gl) f
• Georgian: ყბის ძვალი (q̇bis ʒvali)
• German: Kiefer (de) m, Kieferknochen (de) m
• Greek: γνάθος (el) f (gnáthos)

• Hungarian: állkapocscsont (hu)
• Korean: 턱뼈 (ko) (teokppyeo), (obsolete) 거흠 (geoheum)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: cêlefek

• Malay: tulang rahang, tulang pengancing, tulang bercagak
• Polish: szczęka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mandíbula (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: peirceall m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: crjono n

• Swedish: käkben (sv) n
• Walloon: djawe (wa) f, mashale (wa) f

Verb

jawbone (third-person singular simple present jawbones, present participle jawboning, simple past and past participle jawboned)

1. To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate.

Translations

to persuade

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: puhua ympäri (fi), taivutella (fi)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can