Dictionary entry

Jaws

Pronunciation: /dʒɔː/

Pronunciation

/dʒɔː/

Myanmar Meaning

(n[pl]) မေးရိုးများ

Definition

jaw / dʒↄ: / n ၁။ (က) [C usu pl ] ေမး႐ိုး။ the upper/ lower jaw. (ခ) [sing] ေမး႐ိုး။ a man with a strong square jaw ❍ The punch broke his jaw. ❍ HEAD (ဂ) jaws [pl] ပါးစပ္။ The crocodile's jaws snapped shut. ❍ ( fig ) escape from the jaws of (ie likely) death/ defeat. ၂။ jaws [pl] ေတာင္ၾကားဝ။ ေရလက္ၾကားအဝ။ ၃။ jaws [pl] (ျပဳတ္တူ၊ ကိုက္စသည္၏) ပါးစပ္။ ညႇပ္။ the jaws of a vice. ❍ VICE ၄။ [C,U] ( infml ) ေလကန္ျခင္း။ အာ႐ိုက္ျခင္း။ have a jaw about old times. ❏ one's jaw drops [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပါးစပ္ အေဟာင္းသား ျဖစ္သည္။ My jaw dropped when I saw how much lunch had cost.

Examples

  1. He suffered a broken jaw in the accident.
  2. A firm/square jaw