"jawbox" meaning in All languages combined

See jawbox on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: jawboxes [plural]
Etymology: jaw + box. In old tenements usually placed next to the kitchen window, enabling housewives to talk ("jaw") to each other across the tenement courtyard while doing washing up. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|jaw|box}} jaw + box, {{m|en|jaw}} jaw Head templates: {{en-noun}} jawbox (plural jawboxes)
  1. (Scotland, dated) A tenement sink. Tags: Scotland, dated Synonyms: jaw-hole, jaw-box
    Sense id: en-jawbox-en-noun-Q9LKAu7v Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Scottish English

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for jawbox meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "jaw",
        "3": "box"
      },
      "expansion": "jaw + box",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "jaw"
      },
      "expansion": "jaw",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "jaw + box. In old tenements usually placed next to the kitchen window, enabling housewives to talk (\"jaw\") to each other across the tenement courtyard while doing washing up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jawboxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "jawbox (plural jawboxes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal (chapter 3, p.90 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)",
          "text": "After a week he had to accept that he was growing a black beard, not because he wanted one, but because he could think of no way of shaving. There was a jaw-box in the tiny kitchen but no taps."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 5",
          "text": "She snatches towels from the laundry basket — two, three, four —soaks them at the jawbox sink and lays them along the bottom of the kitchen door.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tenement sink."
      ],
      "id": "en-jawbox-en-noun-Q9LKAu7v",
      "links": [
        [
          "tenement",
          "tenement"
        ],
        [
          "sink",
          "sink"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, dated) A tenement sink."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "jaw-hole"
        },
        {
          "word": "jaw-box"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jawbox"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "jaw",
        "3": "box"
      },
      "expansion": "jaw + box",
      "name": "compound"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "jaw"
      },
      "expansion": "jaw",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "jaw + box. In old tenements usually placed next to the kitchen window, enabling housewives to talk (\"jaw\") to each other across the tenement courtyard while doing washing up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jawboxes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "jawbox (plural jawboxes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal (chapter 3, p.90 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)",
          "text": "After a week he had to accept that he was growing a black beard, not because he wanted one, but because he could think of no way of shaving. There was a jaw-box in the tiny kitchen but no taps."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 5",
          "text": "She snatches towels from the laundry basket — two, three, four —soaks them at the jawbox sink and lays them along the bottom of the kitchen door.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A tenement sink."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tenement",
          "tenement"
        ],
        [
          "sink",
          "sink"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, dated) A tenement sink."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "jaw-hole"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "jaw-box"
    }
  ],
  "word": "jawbox"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.