jawbreaking
adjEtymology From jaw + breaking.
1
Very difficult to pronounce.
- 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, […]1867, Hugh Barclay, I. S. H. Laidlaw, The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume 11, page 131:
- 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.1934, Kansas Teacher and Western School Journal:
- Derived terms
- jawbreakingly
- Related terms
- unpronounceable