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語源

From jaw +‎ box, from jaw (“to pour, throw out, splash”).

名詞

jawbox (plural jawboxes)

1. (Scotland, dated) A tenement sink.

   Synonym: jaw-hole

   • 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal (chapter 3, p.90 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)

     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.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 5:

     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.