adj
Meaning 1
Having one’s lower jaw protruding forward
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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jaw-jutting
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adj
Meaning 2
determined, dogged, strong-willed, defiant
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- 1954, Lars Lawrence (pseudonym of Philip Stevenson), Morning, Noon, and Night, New York: Putnam, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 147, What he called her “genius” for diplomacy, her tolerance of the precious sensitivities of intellectuals, was as useless in his rough-and-tumble relations with goons and jailers as his jaw-jutting aggressions would be in her mannered and scrupulous artistic circle.
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