Word.ws English Dictionary

jawbreaking

jawbreaking adjective: very difficult to pronounce.

Adjective

jawbreaking (comparative more jawbreaking, superlative most jawbreaking)

  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

Forms of jawbreaking

comparativemore jawbreaking
superlativemost jawbreaking

Origin of jawbreaking

From jaw + breaking.

Words formed from jawbreaking

Questions about jawbreaking

What does jawbreaking mean?
Jawbreaking means very difficult to pronounce.
What part of speech is jawbreaking?
Jawbreaking is an adjective.

Words near jawbreaking in the dictionary

  1. jawbonists
  2. jawbox
  3. jawboxes
  4. jawbreaker
  5. jawbreakers
  6. jawbreaking
  7. jawbreakingly
  8. jawdropper
  9. jawdroppers
  10. jawdropping
  11. jawdroppingly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jawbreaking (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “jawbreaking.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jawbreaking. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.