jawbreaker

[jawbreaker] {n.}

1. A large piece of hard candy or bubblegum.

* /Billy asked his mother for a quarter to buy some jawbreakers and a chocolate bar./

2. [informal] A word or name that is hard to pronounce.

* /His name, Nissequogue, is a real jawbreaker./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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