jawbreaking

English

Etymology

jaw +‎ breaking

Adjective

jawbreaking (comparative more jawbreaking, superlative most jawbreaking)

  1. Very difficult to pronounce.
    • 1867, Hugh Barclay, I. S. H. Laidlaw, The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume 11, page 131:
      Lord Cockburn, whose forte was not the civil law, affected to listen attentively and take ample notes, when, at last, on Mr Brodie citing some German civilian with a jawbreaking name, his lordship interrupting him asked, […]
    • 1934, Kansas Teacher and Western School Journal:
      If he had, he would probably write and talk in a jawbreaking technical language that we ordinary mortals could not more understand readily than we can work a cross-word puzzle without resorting to the dictionary.

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