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crackjaw

adj

Etymology

From crack + jaw.

  1. derived from *ga(v)ota✻ — “cheek”
  2. derived from joe — “cheek; jaw”
  3. derived from jowe
  4. inherited from jowe — “jaw; sides of the lower face”
  5. formed as crackjaw — “crack + jaw”

Definitions

  1. Difficult or unpleasant to pronounce.

    • a crackjaw language
    • a crackjaw name
    • Benjamin Disraeli, who was a pretty bright guy—a novelist, debater, and prime minister of England—tried to identify a person once and ended up exclaiming, "A Polish nobleman, a Count somebody; I never can remember their crack-jaw name."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crackjaw. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA