英和和英

語源

From 中期英語 overjowe, over jawe, a partial calque of earlier 中期英語 over chavel (“upper jaw”), equivalent to over- +‎ jaw.

名詞

overjaw (plural overjaws)

1. (somewhat rare) The upper jaw (superior maxillary).

   Antonyms: lower jaw, netherjaw, underjaw

   • 1926, Arthur Percival Newton, Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages, page 161:

     And when they eat, they move the overjaw and nought the nether jaw, and they have no tongue.

   • 1993, The S S E A Journal, volume 23, page 66:

     The King was now represented with a receding forehead, a lined and haggard face, a long nose, thick lips, slanting eyes, a hanging overjaw, and hollow cheeks.

   • 2022, Sharon Olds, Balladz, page 143:

     He drove her over the Hayward Fault,
     its boundaries jammed together like an overjaw clenched to an underjaw.