jaw-breakern.
/ˈdʒɔːˌbreɪkə/, U.S. /ˈdʒɔˌbreɪkər/, /ˈdʒɑˌbreɪkər/ colloquial.
1. A word hard to pronounce; a word of many syllables.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] > lack of euphony > a word hard to pronounce
jaw-breaker1839
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > wordmongering > sesquipedalianism > sesquipedalian word
sesquipedalian1830
jaw-breaker1839
1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer xix I'd rather hear the Cruiskeen Lawn..than a score of your high Dutch jawbreakers.
1886 D. C. Murray First Person Sing. xviii. 136 It's a jawbreaker at first for an Englishman.
1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. i. 14 You will find no ‘jawbreakers’ in Sackville.
2. A machine with powerful jaws for crushing ore, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for crushing ore
stamping-mill1552
bucker1653
buck1683
stamp-mill1752
Ball stamp1860
jaw-breaker1877
jaw-crusher1877
spaller1877
arrastre1881
trapiche1881
gravitation stamp1894
ball mill1895
gravity stamp1903
slugger1903
tube-mill1909
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 421 I speak of the rolls as more applicable for completing the crushing of the ore as it comes in small pieces from the jaw-breaker.
Derivatives
ˈjaw-breaking adj. colloquial hard to pronounce.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > not euphonious > hard to pronounce
pouch-mouth1565
crack-jaw1827
jaw-breaking1842
1842 W. M. Thackeray Miss Tickletoby's Lect. i, in Wks. (1886) XXIV. 13 He conquered a great number of princes with jaw-breaking names.
1883 Good Words Sept. 592/2 A little plant that has a jaw-breaking name.
ˈjaw-ˌbreakingly adv.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adverb] > jaw-breakingly
jaw-breakingly1824
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 191 Entitled by a name most jaw-breakingly perplexing.
Draft additions August 2007
North American. A large, hard, spherical sweet; a gobstopper.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.
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1875 Chicago Tribune 21 Nov. 2/6 Each one had grown tired of jaw-breakers and popcorn balls.
1921 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 22 Jan. 5/1 They call these round balls of candy by the name jawbreakers because they would crack or break your jaw if you tried to chew them.
2006 North Shore News (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 20 Dec. 39 Sweet-tooth pleasers like..jaw breakers and chocolate-covered gummy bears.
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