wapper-jawed
adjEtymology Earliest known use is from 1848 (see quotation).
1
Having a projecting underjaw.
- Fancy an heir, that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hare-lipped, wapper-jawed, car rot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, — my case was yet worse.1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 5:
- Related terms
- wapper jaw, whopperjawed, whomperjawed