Definition of Stickjaw

1. a sweet meat [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stickjaw

sticking
sticking(p)
sticking-place
sticking-places
sticking-point
sticking out(p)
sticking place
sticking places
sticking plaster
sticking plasters
sticking point
sticking points
sticking up
stickings
stickit
stickjaw (current term)
stickjaws
stickle
stickleback
sticklebacks
stickled
stickler
sticklerism
sticklers
stickles
sticklike
stickling
stickman
stickmen
stickout

Literary usage of Stickjaw

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"... either in the raw or turned into little round cakes of stickjaw sweetmeat. The mountains in this little district are very grand ; one long series of ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"... just as the " young gentlemen" had risen from their Saturday's commons of scrap-pie and stickjaw—certain savory preparations not enumerated in the ..."

3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"They '11 just " wipe your eye," if their stickjaw you try. Л mih, MICKY, now, can't you be aisy ? ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"... our youngsters will not really be quite so hungry as we often felt in our school-days, or be called upon to face the unsavoury aspect of " stickjaw," or ..."

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