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jawing 1 of 2

noun

as in yammering

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jawing

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verb

present participle of jaw

as in scolding

to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings you don't have to jaw me to death just because I bite my nails

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as in chatting

to engage in casual or rambling conversation just a group of girls sitting around the locker room and jawing about the usual stuff

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Noun

Another clip showed Brown jawing toward Sirianni and being held back by his teammates. — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026 The two players had been going at each other throughout the game, with multiple videos capturing the two jawing at each other. — Matt Schubert, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2026 Later came the jawing, with Kelsey Plum, with Natasha Cloud. — Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026 There was some punching, a ton of pushing and shoving and a lot of jawing, too, as the scrum spread across the grass. — Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026 There was some pushing and shoving and a lot of jawing, and officials threw six flags as the chaos ensued. — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025 Meanwhile, there was an undercurrent of malevolence coming from the Sabres’ Mason Geertsen (6-foot-5, 231 pounds), who got into a couple of jawing matches with 6-foot-7, 255-pound Nikita Zadorov, but nothing came of it. — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 12 Oct. 2025 Despite some discouraging downward trends, all the prefatory jawing could go a long way toward siphoning off a fair number of viewers who might otherwise be locked in on the NFL. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025 All of the jawing between the two teams resulted in Jimmy and Jey challenging Reed and Breakker to a tag team match for Wrestlepalooza. — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025

Verb

Late in the second quarter of the 49ers’ 32-29 victory in Seattle, Fox Sports cameras showed Evans and Seahawks cornerback Trevon Diggs jawing after a play. — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Towns intervened as Brady was escorted away from Paul, who continued jawing at the future Hall of Fame quarterback. — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 20 July 2026 After he and Nyland were seen jawing back and forth, Neymar buried the attempt, which was ultimately a consolation goal. — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026 Paraguay continued the physicality through the end of the match, with the teams even jawing at each other after final whistle. — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 4 July 2026 That time, Duran had to be held back by coaches after jawing with the fan. — Greg Dudek, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026 After Hawks center Tony Bradley was called for an offensive foul for setting a hard screen on Alvarado, the veteran McCollum got into it with the scrappy Knicks guard, jawing face-to-face in a moment that underscored the growing chippiness in the series. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026 Men’s coaches yelling, jawing, getting in each other’s faces. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026 Baker-Mazara dribbled into consecutive 3-point shots, jawing with the UCLA student section while running back on defense. — Aaron Heisen, Oc Register, 25 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for jawing

Noun

Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.

— Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Thomas, for all his proprietary yammering about his young wards, turns out to have fatally underestimated them.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026

Definition of yammering

Verb

By the time his daughter shows up, flanked by her mom and upright dentist stepdad, Lee’s moved on from scolding the room to thanking his mother for believing him.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
Others criticized Anderson for seemingly scolding fans and trying to tell them where to sit.

— James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of scolding

Verb

Times columnists Gustavo Arellano, Steve Lopez and Lorraine Ali are chatting about Tuesday night’s Los Angeles mayoral debate between Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
The challenge will include multiple phases, including a concept design, concept refinement after chatting with reviewers, and then a final selection.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of chatting

Verb

For decades, Zinn traveled the country lecturing to packed auditoriums.

— Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2026
The bald guy lecturing me on how to get the money looked real enough, but the question of his true being kept rattling around my increasingly paranoid mind.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of lecturing

Verb

That level of pure confidence while talking to the person with cold, hard footage is what makes Lisa Barlow the perfect Real Housewife.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
There are so many more interesting things than listening to a bunch of Flock employees talking on a wireless microphone with radio.

— Nilay Patel, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of talking

Noun

Some children clustered there to jabber and run madly about, while others just wanted attention and knew how to get it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 May 2025

Definition of jabber

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