lantern-jawed

See also: lantern jawed

English

Alternative forms

• lantern jawed

Adjective

lantern-jawed (not comparable)

1. Having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.
   • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 15:

     He was very thin and lantern-jawed. He dared not meet his own eyes in the mirror; he never looked at himself.

   • 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, Delacorte Press, Chapter 1, p. 21,

     A blue-eyed, lantern-jawed old white man, who is two meters tall and one hundred years old, sits in the clearing on what was once the back seat of a taxicab.