Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The flesh of the lower cheeks or lower jaw, especially when plump or flaccid.
- noun A fleshy part similar to a jowl, such as the dewlap of a cow or the wattle of a fowl.
- noun The jaw, especially the lower jaw.
- noun The cheek.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strike or dash, as the jowl or head; butt; clash with violence, as horns.
- To scold; “jaw.”
- In coal-mining, to hammer on the coal for the purpose of ascertaining what thickness intervenes between two contiguous workings.
- noun The cheek.
- noun The cheek or head of a pig, salmon, etc., prepared for the table: as, jowl and greens is a Virginia dish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The cheek; the jaw.
- noun with the cheeks close together; side by side; in close proximity.
- transitive verb obsolete To throw, dash, or knock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
- noun cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
- noun the
jaw , jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of themandible . - noun the
cheek ; especially the cheek meat of ahog . - verb obsolete, transitive To
throw ,dash , orknock .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging)
- noun the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He was armed with a hammer, and with this he struck one of the metal guiders of the ruined cage, giving the pitman's "jowl" or signal, "three times three, and one over."
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He went to the edge of the shaft, and then heard unmistakably, far below him, the "jowl" for which we had listened in vain on the previous morning.
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'jowl' of earthenware -- that was the local word for it -- a batch of dough was set before a fire to rise.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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What did they do, all the chaps I knew, the chaps in the clubs with whom I'd been cheek by jowl for heaven knows how long?
Chapter IX 2010
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Hermann von Schmidt cheek by jowl with Charley Hapgood, and one by one and in pairs he judged them and dismissed them — judged them by the standards of intellect and morality he had learned from the books.
Chapter 29 2010
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I've long been a secret fan of those day-glo curling stones which spend all day drying out under chip shop heat lamps, cheek by jowl with the savs and cheese pies, but I really fell in love with the fish cake when a far worldlier boyfriend whisked me off to lunch at Le Caprice for my 18th birthday.
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But of march impertinence by jowl with imitation we find a tiny of a many gloriously relocating denunciation ever combined in English.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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"That it's a crying shame for a man to kape company with -- with you, an 'at the same time be chake by jowl with a woman iv her stamp."
CHAPTER 16 2010
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But of march impertinence by jowl with imitation we find a tiny of a many gloriously relocating denunciation ever combined in English.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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"I was just wondering which was the muckiest, Mr.St. Vincent or you -- or myself, with whom you have both been cheek by jowl."
CHAPTER 16 2010
sionnach commented on the word jowl
unit of excess weight: lumpens x fignewtons
February 23, 2008
reesetee commented on the word jowl
Haha!
February 24, 2008