Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a tedious scolding; thus jawbatious, tedious, argumentative, ill-humoured; a noisy argument that takes place in the street.

1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 104: Jawbation — a set-to of several.
1838		R.S. Surtees Jorrocks Jaunts (1874) 32: Shouts of ‘Yooi over, over, over hounds—try for him— [...] have at him there!’—here interrupted the jawbation.
1840		Metropolitan 29 122: I think I have already mentioned his ugly habit of hissing during a jawbation.
1843		R.S. Surtees Handley Cross (1854) 249: Unless young green’orn be a tolerably jawbacious sort of chap, he had better be a listener.
1849		Dublin U. Mag. 33 (Jan.) 38/1: Stop that jawbation, Gus ; and, Dighton, tell your niggers to begin.
1855		Western Times 9 June 5/2: They [...] give the parson a ‘jawbation’ when he deserves it.
1866		Hereford Jrnl 22 Sept. 5/5: No direct jawbation was ever given for delinquency in this particular.
1872		Western Times 28 May 5/6: His lordship gave him what was called a jawbation.
1881		Worcs. Chron. 5 Feb. 3/1: Said Bigger the bold: Like Samson of old, / ‘I will make such a mighty jaw-bation’.
1894		Western Times 3 Apr. 4/6: The war of obstruction is to be waged with the old vigour, and on the old plan of time-wasting jawbation.
1926		Derby Dly Teleg. 26 Feb. 2/2: It was obviously a corruption of another slang word, and shoul have been written ‘jawbation’.