| 单词 | jawbreaker |
| 释义 | jawbreaker (once / 203782 pages) 1n 2n A jawbreaker is a big, hard, round piece of candy. You can often tell when a little kid is sucking on a jawbreaker from the bulge in her cheek. In North America, the word jawbreaker usually refers to a very sweet kind of candy that can't be bitten because it's so hard. Another kind of jawbreaker is a word that's difficult to pronounce. Words like remuneration and mnemonics are considered jawbreakers by many people, including native English speakers. The adjective jawbreakingly came first, around 1824, describing tricky words, and the candy emerged in 1911. Both versions of jawbreaker use the figurative sense of "breaking" one's jaw, either with language or hard candy. WORD FAMILYjawbreaker: jawbreakers USAGE EXAMPLESLate nights behind our computer monitors talking favorite Pavement songs or a shared love of Jawbreaker’s “24 Hour Revenge Therapy.” Salon(Oct 08, 2016) Charon looks like half its surface has been chipped off, like a damaged Gobstopper or Jawbreaker. MSNBC(Oct 04, 2015) Time after time, it dipped in and out of the candy counter: peppermint sticks, jawbreakers, horehound, and gumdrops. Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows(1961) 1 n a large round hard candy 2Hyper hard candy candy that is brittle n a word that is hard to pronounce Hyper polysyllabic word, polysyllable a word of more than three syllables |
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