different between jaw vs elbow

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English jawe, jowe, geowe, alteration of *chawe (in early Modern English chawe, chaw), from Proto-Germanic *kaw? (compare Middle Dutch kauwe (“fish jaw”), kouwe (“mouth cavity”), dialectal German Käu, Keu (“jaw, donkey jowl”)), gradation-variant of *kew? (compare Old English ??an (pl.) ‘gills’, West Frisian kiuw (“gill”), Dutch kieuw (“gill”)), noun from Proto-Germanic *kewwan? (compare English chew). More at chew. Alteration probably influenced by Middle English jolle, chaul (“jowl”), which it replaced (see jowl).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: jô?, IPA^(key): /d????/
• (US) enPR: jô, IPA^(key): /d???/
  • (cot–caught merger), IPA^(key): /d???/

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

jaw (plural jaws)

1. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
2. The part of the face below the mouth.

3. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance.

4. A notch or opening.
5. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.

6. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.

7. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
8. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
   • 1869, Henry Kingsley, Silcote of Silcotes

     Give me the boy, now, and no more of your jaw. I am going to take the boy home with me.

9. (slang) Axle guard.
11. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• chin

Verb

jaw (third-person singular simple present jaws, present participle jawing, simple past and past participle jawed)

1. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
   • 1933, Ethel Lina White, The Spiral Staircase (Some Must Watch), Chapter 4, [1]

     He built the Summit, so as to have no neighbours. And Lady Warren couldn't abide It. She was always jawing him about it, and they had one awful quarrel, in his study.

2. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
   • 1748, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, Chapter 24, [2]

     […] he waked him, which put him in a main high passion, and he swore woundily at the lieutenant, and called him lousy Scotch son of a whore […] , and swab, and lubber, whereby the lieutenant returned the salute, and they jawed together fore and aft a good spell, till at last the captain turned out, and, laying hold of a rattan, came athwart Mr. Bowling's quarter: whereby he told the captain that, if he was not his commander, he would heave him overboard […]

3. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
   • 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, 1998, Chapter 5,

     Today the beastly boat is level at last and the sun’s out and we have all been jawing about what to do.

4. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.

Etymology 2

Uncertain, see Jew's harp for more.

Adjective

jaw (not comparable)

1. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump)

North Frisian

Pronoun

jaw

1. your (second personal pronoun plural possessive)

See also

• jam

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaf/

Noun

jaw f

1. genitive plural of jawa

English

Etymology

From Middle English elbowe, from Old English elboga, elnboga (“elbow”), from Proto-Germanic *alinabugô (“elbow”), equivalent to ell +? bow. Cognate with Scots elbuck (“elbow”), Saterland Frisian Älbooge (“elbow”), Dutch elleboog (“elbow”), Low German Ellebage (“elbow”), German Ellbogen, Ellenbogen (“elbow”), Danish albue (“elbow”), Icelandic olbogi, olnbogi (“elbow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l.b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.bo?/, /??l.bo?/

Noun

elbow (plural elbows)

2. (anatomy) The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.

   Synonym: elbow joint

3. (by extension) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, coastline, etc.; an angular or jointed part of any structure, such as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.

4. (US, dated, early 20th-century slang) A detective.
5. (basketball) Part of a basketball court located at the intersection of the free-throw line and the free-throw lane.
6. A hit with the elbow.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

elbow (third-person singular simple present elbows, present participle elbowing, simple past and past participle elbowed)

1. (transitive) To push with the elbow or elbows; to forge ahead using the elbows to assist.
2. (transitive, by extension) To nudge, jostle or push.

Derived terms

• elbower

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Parts of the knot

References

Anagrams

• Below, Blowe, Lebow, below, blowe, bowel, bowle

Middle English

Noun

elbow

1. Alternative form of elbowe