Lord Cockburn, whose forte was not the civil law, affected to listen attentively and take ample notes, when, at last, on Mr Brodie citing some German civilian with a jawbreaking name, his lordship interrupting him asked, […]
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Jawbreaking
Synonyms for "jawbreaking" (44 found)
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Related words (22)
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3 translations across 2 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- hankala lausua adj (Translations)
French
2 entries- imprononçable adj (Translations)
- à coucher dehors adj (Translations)
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2 total sentences available.
If he had, he would probably write and talk in a jawbreaking technical language that we ordinary mortals could not more understand readily than we can work a cross-word puzzle without resorting to the dictionary.
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