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Definition of Dewlapped
1. a. Furnished with a dewlap.
Definition of Dewlapped
1. Adjective. Having dewlaps (of a specified kind). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dewlapped
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dewlapped
Literary usage of Dewlapped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stokes' Encyclopedia of Familiar Quotations: Containing Five Thousand (1906)
"... dewlapped like bulls,1 whose throats had hanging at them Wallets of flesh?
or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts,2 SHAKESPEARE, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1866)
"of scoundrelism : a fat, snub, abominable face ; dewlapped, flat-nosed, greasy,
full of-greediness, sensuality, ox-like obstinacy ; a forehead impudent, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... in that coarsely-protruded shelf-mouth, that fat dewlapped chin ; in all this,
who sees not sensuality, pretension, boisterous imbecility enough; ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... in those bag-cheeks, hanging like half-filled wine-skins, still able to contain
more; in that coarsely protruded shelf-mouth, that fat dewlapped chin; ..."
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