A long and hard word. The N.E.D. quotes Lever’s ‘Harry Lorrequer,’ 1839, for JAW-BREAKER.
1840. The gentleman had brought up many hard words, which he said he could scarcely spell, nor pronounce them after he had spelt them. They were in fact what in Virginia they termed “jawcrackers.”—Mr. Jones of Va., House of Repr., April 29: Cong. Globe, p. 367.
