Humourless vs Lockjawed - What's the difference?
humourless | lockjawed |
(informal) Rigidly humourless.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 4, author=Ben Brantley, title=Bound by Blood, but Separated by a Breach in Sanity, work=New York Times
, passage=A work that never quite succeeds in matching its thoughtful head to its sentimental heart, “Crazy Mary” charts a culture clash between a lockjawed , button-down matron and her distant cousin, a longtime sanitarium resident who is, to put it politely, bonkers. }}
As adjectives the difference between humourless and lockjawed
is that humourless is (british spelling|canadian) while lockjawed is (informal) rigidly humourless.lockjawed
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