different between dewlap vs dewlapped

English

Etymology

Dew, of unknown meaning and origin, + Old English læppa (“a loose hanging piece”)

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?du.læp/, /?dju.læp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?dju?.læp/

Noun

dewlap (plural dewlaps)

1. The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal.
   • 1901 – 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

     Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.

2. The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person.
   • 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Midwinter Break', Chapter 2, at p.36:

     He ended up looking at himself in the mirror. His image stared back at him. He was developing a dewlap - a definite dewlap. He waggled under his chin scornfully with his fingers.

Coordinate terms

• dewclaw - same first root element, "dew"

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Anagrams

• pawled

English

Etymology

dewlap +? -ed

Adjective

dewlapped (not comparable)

1. Having dewlaps (of a specified kind).

   yellow-dewlapped lizards

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 3

     When we were boys, / Who would believe that there were mountaineers / Dewlapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them / Wallets of flesh?

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