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noun the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
verb talk idly or casually and in a friendly way
originFrom Middle English jawe bone, a partial calque of earlier Middle English chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chawle boon, chavyl bon (“jaw bone”, literally “chavel bone”), see chavel-bone; equivalent to jaw + bone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0