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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

crackjaw en · ADJ

Etymology

From crack + jaw.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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." 2009, Patsy Clairmont, All Cracked Up: Experiencing God in the Broken Places:

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