Meaning of whopperjawed | Babel Free

Definitions

Crooked, misaligned, out of sorts.

Examples

“[…] whopper jawed fogies, […]”

“The fact that inexperienced, ignorant men have⟳ often been induced by the advice of mere theorists, or their own⟳ over-confidence, to undertake⟳ this kind of building, resulting, as might naturally be expected, in ungainly, crooked, whopper-jawed, and cracked walls, is no evidence whatever against the system, but only an evidence of the folly of men, in undertaking what they don’t understand⟳.”

“The newspaper politician-editors are whistling to keep⟳ up courage. They have⟳ found some green persimmons somewhere, for their whistling is badly whopperjawed.”

““I much prefer⟳ straight sailin‘ tew this goin‘ in cattery-wampus towards one shore an‘ then skewin‘ off towards the others,” said he, suiting the action to the words. “It‘s enough tew make⟳ a feller whopperjawed.””

““Conflicting circumstances have⟳ me so seriously muddled I am whopperjawed if I can say⟳, but it looks like⟳ it. A boy seldom turns loose of a pocketknife by accident.””

“Cattwumpus, arfybarsed, whopperjawed, it‘s an impossible construct, the cosmos given us to observe⟳ in the fun-house mirror of our perception, and we‘re just kids at the carnival, our faces smeared with spun sugar and wild excitement, alive and happy till we hit exhaustion and break⟳ down into tears.”

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