Jawsmith
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Jawsmith is a noun meaning (US, slang) An orator, especially a demagogue.
Meaning
(US, slang) An orator, especially a demagogue.
More Meanings
- (US, slang) A union organizer; later especially of the International Workers of the World.
Example Sentences
The life of a "jawsmith", as IWW speakers and agitators were called […] Fatigue, burnout and overexhaustion are the diseases of the jawsmith trade.
One professional jaw-smith, who came as the self-appointed messenger of American labor wanted a Chinese-wall tariff, and subsidized ships to carry cargoes one way and ballast the other.
The evolutions and involutions of a maiden effort at Dress Parade are incomprehensible as ravings of the salaried jawsmith in a labor strike, who has burst into a profuse state of prevarication as the rosy beer-froth mantles his sublime cheek.
Many Wobblies became "jawsmiths," or organizers, themselves. While working at their regular jobs they would hitchhike and boxcar-hop across the country, stopping off at factory towns and lumber camps, speaking and singing at the top of their lungs.
Word Forms
- jawsmiths
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include josser, windjammer, jargoneer, jabberer, megajerk, jokist.
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