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ˈjaw-ˌbreaker colloq.
1. A word hard to pronounce; a word of many syllables.
1839Lever H. Lorrequer xix, I'd rather hear the Cruiskeen Lawn..than a score of your high Dutch jawbreakers. 1886D. C. Murray 1st Person Sing. xviii. 136 It's a jawbreaker at first for an Englishman. 1887Saintsbury Hist. Elizab. Lit. i. 14 You will find no ‘jawbreakers’ in Sackville.
2. A machine with powerful jaws for crushing ore, etc.
1877Raymond Statist. 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.
So ˈjaw-breaking a. colloq., hard to pronounce; hence ˈjaw-ˌbreakingly adv.
1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 191 Entitled by a name most jaw-breakingly perplexing. 1842Thackeray Miss Tickletoby's Lect. i. Wks. 1886 XXIV. 13 He conquered a great number of princes with jaw-breaking names. 1883Gd. Words Sept. 592/2 A little plant that has a jaw-breaking name.
▸ N. Amer. A large, hard, spherical sweet; a gobstopper.
1875Chicago Tribune 21 Nov. 2/6 Each one had grown tired of jaw-breakers and popcorn balls. 1921Ogden (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. 2006North Shore News (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 20 Dec. 39 Sweet-tooth pleasers like..jaw breakers and chocolate-covered gummy bears. |