"jawbox" meaning in English

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  "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",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "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.",
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        "A tenement sink."
      ],
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          "sink",
          "sink"
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        "(Scotland, dated) A tenement sink."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "jaw-hole"
        },
        {
          "word": "jaw-box"
        }
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        "Scotland",
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  "word": "jawbox"
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  ],
  "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"
      ]
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  ],
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          "ref": "1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal (chapter 3, p.90 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)",
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        },
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          "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.",
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        }
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        "A tenement sink."
      ],
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          "sink",
          "sink"
        ]
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        "(Scotland, dated) A tenement sink."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "jaw-box"
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  "word": "jawbox"
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