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Whomperjawed

//wɒm.pə(ɹ).d͡ʒɔːd// adj

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Adjective
  1. 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."

Etymology

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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