JAWBREAKER

Meaning of JAWBREAKER in English

■ noun informal

1》 a word that is very long or hard to pronounce.

2》 chiefly N. Amer. a large gobstopper.

Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

JAWBREAKER — noun Date: 1839 a word difficult to pronounce, a round hard candy
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
JAWBREAKER — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : a word difficult to pronounce 2. : a round hard candy made from sugar syrup 3. …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
JAWBREAKER — — jawbreaking , adj. — jawbreakingly , adv. /jaw"bray'keuhr/ , n. 1. Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
JAWBREAKER — n. word that is difficult to pronounce (Slang); hard candy
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
JAWBREAKER — noun Date: 1839 1. : a word difficult to pronounce 2. : a round hard candy
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
JAWBREAKER — [jaw.break.er] n (1839) 1: a word difficult to pronounce 2: a round hard candy
Merriam-Webster English vocab
JAWBREAKER — jawbreaker BrE AmE ˈdʒɔː ˌbreɪk ə AmE \ - ə r ˈdʒɑː- ▷ jawbreaker|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
JAWBREAKER — / ˈdʒɔːbreɪkə(r); NAmE / noun ( NAmE ) = gobstopper
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
JAWBREAKER — jaw ‧ break ‧ er /ˈdʒɔːˌbreɪkə $ ˈdʒɒːˌbreɪkər/ BrE AmE noun [countable] American English a round hard sweet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
JAWBREAKER — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He approached them opening the bag of jawbreakers noisily and slowly unwrapping the plastic tissue …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
JAWBREAKER — (SWEET) [noun] [C] [US and ANZ] - a large hard sweet
Cambridge English vocab
JAWBREAKER — {n.} 1. A large piece of hard candy or bubblegum. * /Billy asked his mother for a quarter to buy …
Slang English vocab
JAWBREAKER — n. 1. A large piece of hard candy or bubblegum. Billy asked his mother for a quarter to buy some …
American Idioms English vocabulary
JAWBREAKER — щекодробилка
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
JAWBREAKER — Скороговорка
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
JAWBREAKER — щекодробилка
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
JAWBREAKER — 1. "зубодробитель": большой кусок леденца, жевательной резинки... в общем, чего-то, что не поддается раскусыванию и легкому прожевыванию; 2. "язык сломаешь": …
Subsidiary English-Russian Dictionary
JAWBREAKER — n. а вот это словцо означает вовсе не того, о ком вы сразу подумали. Их "челюстькрошитель" - это вовсе не …
Англо-Русский сленговый словарь
JAWBREAKER — щекодробилка
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
JAWBREAKER — n. Pronunciation: - ˌ br ā -k ə r Function: noun Date: 1839 1 : a word difficult to pronounce …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
GOBSTOPPER — UK, US jawbreaker [noun] [C] - a large round hard sweet which often has different coloured layers
Cambridge English vocab
SESQUIPEDALIAN — Synonyms and related words : Latinate, a mile long, awkward, bombastic, cramped, cumbrous, elephantine, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, fargoing, forced, formal, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
POLYSYLLABLE — Synonyms and related words : antonym, articulation, expression, free form, grandiloquence, hard word, homograph, homonym, homophone, jawbreaker, lexeme, lexiphanicism, linguistic …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
MOUTHFUL — Synonyms and related words : bellyful, bit, bite, bolus, bumper, capacity, champ, charge, chaw, chew, chomp, chunk, complement, cram, crush, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
GRANDILOQUENCE — Synonyms and related words : affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, command of language, dilatation, dilation, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
INFORMAL — A word or name that is hard to pronounce. * /His name, Nissequogue, is a real jawbreaker./
Slang English vocab
INFORMAL — A word or name that is hard to pronounce. * /His name, Nissequogue, is a real jawbreaker./ Hardly; unlikely; not …
Словарь английских идиом
ЯЗЫК — I муж. 1) tongue прям. и перен. языки пламени — tongues of flame воспаление языка — мед. glossitis обложенный язык …
Русско-Английский краткий словарь по общей лексике
ЯЗЫК — I муж. 1) tongue прям. и перен. языки пламени – tongues of flame обложенный язык – coated/ furred tongue воспаление …
Большой Русско-Английский словарь
ЩЕКОДРОБИЛКА — jawbreaker
Большой Русско-Английский словарь

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