flap-jawed in English

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          "text": "2017, Jorge Zepeda Patterson, Milena: Or, The Most Beautiful Femur in the World\n[…] to hit someone, to smoke pot for days on end, or get in a truck and flee the city: anything but be shut up there on his way home, driven around like a kid by this flap-jawed chauffeur."
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        "Chattery; gossipy."
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        "(informal) Chattery; gossipy."
      ],
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    {
      "form": "more flap-jawed",
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        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most flap-jawed",
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        "superlative"
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          "text": "2017, Jorge Zepeda Patterson, Milena: Or, The Most Beautiful Femur in the World\n[…] to hit someone, to smoke pot for days on end, or get in a truck and flee the city: anything but be shut up there on his way home, driven around like a kid by this flap-jawed chauffeur."
        }
      ],
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        "Chattery; gossipy."
      ],
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        "(informal) Chattery; gossipy."
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      ]
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  "word": "flap-jawed"
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"flap-jawed" meaning in English

Adjective