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What can be understood as a jabber-jawed excuse? What does mean this sort of adjective?

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What can be understood as a jabber-jawed excuse? What does mean this sort of adjective?

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I would say it's a term created by the author, look up "jabber" in a dictionary and you can probably work out what he means by it.
 

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Source: jaw - definition of jaw by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

intr.v. jawed, jaw·ing, jaws Slang
1. To talk vociferously; jabber.
2. To talk; converse.

Source:jabber - definition of jabber by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
jabber
v jabber
to talk idly, rapidly and indistinctly

jabber-jawed, according to the definitions above, seems to be describing a person who makes not much of a sense while he/she converses. In your example, it may be describing someone whose excuse bears reluctancy. Or, the person has no real excuse, so when he/she is asked to account for something that he/she messed up, all he/she does is mumbling a weak excuse .
 
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I would say it's a term created by the author, look up "jabber" in a dictionary and you can probably work out what he means by it.

So, summing up, can we say an idiot, dumb excuse?
 
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