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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A very hard candy.
  • noun Slang A word that is difficult to pronounce.
  • noun A machine that crushes rock or ore.

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  • noun A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
  • noun A long, hard-to-pronounce word.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a word that is hard to pronounce
  • noun a large round hard candy

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