jawbreaking

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
28
Words With Friends
33
Letters
11

Definition of jawbreaking

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  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, […]”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From jaw + breaking.

Words you can make from jawbreaking

200+ playable · top: JERKING (19 pts)

Best play jerking 19 points

9-letter words

1 word

8-letter words

5 words

7-letter words

15 words

6-letter words

32 words

5-letter words

63 words

4-letter words

83 words

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