Whopperjawed

[…] 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.