jawbreaker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
    — If somebody microwaves a large jawbreaker and nibbles on the outside, a crack can cause molten candy to burst out and cause painful burns. Exploding jawbreakers have been documented on television news and in police reports.
  2. A long, hard-to-pronounce word.
    — The word “callipygous” is something of a jawbreaker.
  3. A hard blow to the side of the face. slang
    — Bendoff went pluckily forward, but only to receive a jawbreaker from Couper's left, […]

词形变化

jawbreakers plural jaw-breaker alternative jaw breaker alternative

词汇关系

相关词
crackjaw niggerball

词源

From jaw + breaker.
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