stick-jaw

Katie stood in the back of the student center, near the coat closet with its dull polyurethane hooks, hands clasped over her stick-jaw pelvis, eyes on the blue sky and bluer smoke being projected through the TV.

Three Degrees of Separation from the Same Thing We Were Still Supposed to be Thinking About Chris Vola 2011

Katie stood in the back of the student center, near the coat closet with its dull polyurethane hooks, hands clasped over her stick-jaw pelvis, eyes on the blue sky and bluer smoke being projected through the TV.

Three Degrees of Separation from the Same Thing We Were Still Supposed to be Thinking About Chris Vola 2011

The meals at Huddard's were fairly good, no doubt, as school fare goes, but the sugary stick-jaw stuff for which the soul of a boy longs was naturally not part of the official bill of fare.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

I myself have harrowing recollections of huge piles of bread and butter, of vast slabs of cake -- damp and 'soggy,' and of mysterious hue -- of glutinous mixtures purporting to be 'stick-jaw,' one inch of which was warranted to render coherent speech impossible for ten minutes at least.

My Lady Caprice Jeffery Farnol 1915

As its consistency was decidedly of a stick-jaw nature, the mingled sucking and sobbing which followed produced a queer combination.

A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

The meals at Huddard's were fairly good, no doubt, as school fare goes, but the sugary stick-jaw stuff for which the soul of a boy longs was naturally not part of the official bill of fare.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904

Monday, fried beef, and stick-jaw (as they profanely called a certain pudding); Wednesday, leg of mutton, and so on.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

Arrived there, he found the dog in the kitchen, somewhat sore from the visitation of the shot, but not sufficiently injured to prevent his enjoying a most liberal plate of stick-jaw pudding supplied by a general contribution of the servants.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

Dinner passed over, and the fruity port and sugary sherry soon usurped the places that stick-jaw pudding and cheese had occupied.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

Lacklustre is strictly an adjective in the U.S., but it is acceptable as a noun for such a condition in England, where stick-jaw is gummy candy, a spitfrog is a small sword and a lockspit is a trench no wider than the tool it is dug with, used to mark (` lock ') the turf (` spit') either to assert a legal claim or to guide the diggers.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1 1987