Cheek

Definition: Cheek

Cheek

Adjective

1. Toward the inside of the cheek; "the buccal aspect of the gum".

Noun

1. Either side of the face below the eyes.

2. An impudent statement.

3. Either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump.

4. Impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty".

Verb

1. Speak impudently to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cheek" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

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Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cheek

Accompaniment

Adverb: with, withal; together with, along with, in company with; hand in hand, side by side; cheek by jowl, cheek by jole; arm in arm; therewith, herewith; and; (addition).

Endearment

Verb: caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cockle; make of, make much of; cherish, foster, kill with kindness.

Evidence

Verb: countervail, oppose; mitigate against; rebut; (refute); subvert; (destroy); cheek, weaken; contravene; contradict; (deny); tell the other side of the story, tell another story, turn the scale, alter the case; turn the tables; cut both ways; prove a negative.

Laterality

Phrase: "his cheek the may of days outworn".

Noun: laterality; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand; cheek, jowl, jole, wing; profile; temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip; beam.

Adverb: sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl; (near); to windward, to leeward; laterally; Adjective: right and left; on her beam ends.

Nearness

Within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of; in the environs; Noun: at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under one's nose; within a stone's throw; Noun: in sight of, in presence of; at close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition; (touching); yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way.

Refuge

Anchor, kedge; grapnel, grappling iron; sheet anchor, killick; mainstay; support; cheek; ballast.

Submission

Eat dirt, eat the leek, eat humble pie; bite the dust, lick the dust; be at one's feet, fall at one's feet; craven; crouch before, throw oneself at the feet of; swallow the leek, swallow the pill; kiss the rod; turn the other cheek; avaler les couleuvres, gulp down.

Crosswords: Cheek

The only consequence of all this will be, that whenever I open a nice Bordeaux, there will be the distant, distasteful memory of a nutcase who tried to kill me because I allowed her to kiss me on the cheek under false pretenses (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

You're showing a bit more cheek than usual Miss Case (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Me bum's gone to sleep again, all down the left cheek. (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; writing credit: Sara B. Cooper; Mike Werb)

Don’t turn my cheek for anyone (I Did It; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye. (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash)

Now it won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek. (Coward of the County; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

From the thighs to the cheek (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris)

Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side ("El Paso"; performing artist: Marty Robbins)

What boys say to girls: I wish I was one of your tears so I could be born in your eye, run down your cheek, and die on your lips. (references; author: unknown)

Cheek to cheek (1997)

Tongue 'n Cheek (1984)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Barefoot boy with cheek (reference)

• Cheek by Jowl (reference)

• Dying Cheek to Cheek (reference)

• How to Turn the Other Cheek and Still Survive in Today's World (reference)

• It Only Hurts When I Polka: Even More Tongue in Cheek Looks at Queer Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Cheek to Cheek: The Irving Berlin Songbook (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is a head and shoulder close-up of a black mother holding her daughter. In one photograph, they are sitting cheek to cheek and in another they are kissing. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

53 year old female, employed 10 years in the spinning department of a goat-hair processing mill. Cutaneous anthrax lesion on right cheek; lesion as seen on 11th day. Credit: CDC.

African American girl, half-length portrait, with right hand to cheek, with illustrated book on table. Credit: Library of Congress.

Angela felt Somer's arms tighten around her and his cheek brush hers as the water roared over them. Credit: Library of Congress.

Major: if a man were to slap your wife's cheek, what would you do? : Pacifist: I'd turn her other cheek. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. ... Cheek and wife, Rev. Chilembwe, and group posed in front of church and part of school, with Miss Delaney in window, in Liberia or Malawi. Credit: Library of Congress.

The darktown hunt-presenting the brush: "You done better keep it kurnel to polish you cheek.". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I see it in her cheek, her smile, her vain attempt to frown

The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek, and made his lips tremulous

A sad line, such as is formed by irony, had marked her right cheek.

She was dancing towards him and, as she came, her eyes were a little averted and a faint glow was on her cheek.

He laid the warm cloth over his nose and cheek, and winced at the heat

It was worth the while, if only to feel the wind blow on your cheek freely, and see the waves run, and remember the life of mariners

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The eye and cheek of the affected side may become sunken. (references)

Weak tongue or cheek muscles may make it hard to move food around in the mouth for chewing. (references)

A few patients with severe TS demonstrate self-harming behaviors such as lip and cheek biting and head banging against hard objects. (references)

Travel

Argentina

Among Argentines, it is customary for men to kiss even women they meet for the first time on the right cheek. (references)

Mexico

A single air-kiss on the cheek is expected for all women present, although this is not necessary in the first meeting. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cheek": Butment cheek ♦ cheek band ♦ cheek block ♦ cheek bone ♦ cheek by jowl ♦ cheek muscle ♦ Cheek of beef ♦ Cheek pouch ♦ Cheek tooth ♦ dimple in the cheek ♦ have the cheek ♦ have the cheek to ♦ Ingle cheek ♦ rouge one's cheek ♦ speak with one's tongue in one's cheek ♦ tongue in cheek ♦ with the tongue in his cheek. Additional references.

Beginning with "cheek": cheek-bone, cheek-boned, cheek-bones, cheek-busting, cheek-by, cheek-by-jowl, cheek-by-jowl-with-industry, cheek-hairs, cheek-length, cheek-pieces, cheek-roses, cheek-to-cheek, cheek-to-jowl, cheek-tooth, cheek-touch.

Ending with "cheek": tongue-in-cheek.

Containing "cheek": bantering facetious tongue-in-cheek witty, chik-cheek-cheek-keraykek, high-cheek-boned.

Afrikaans

wang. (various references)

Albanian

faqe (aspect, façade, face, flat, form, front, generation, hillside, layer, page, side, surface). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وقاحة (audacity, boldness, effrontery, face, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, immodesty, impertinence, impolicy, impudence, insolence, lip, manginess, nastiness, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, presumption, sauce, sauciness), ‏وجنة, ‏خاطب بوقاحة, ‏خد, ‏الخد. (various references)

Aymara

khañu. (various references)

Blackfoot

mootstsípinnaan. (various references)

Bulgarian 

страна (aspect, country, dimension, doorpost, face, flank, half, hand, land, market, part, party, realm, region, side), челюст на клещи, чело на чук (poll), каса (case, cash desk, chest, coffer, exchequer, packing case, pay desk, pay office), нахалство (arrogance, contumely, crust, face, front, gall, impertinence, insolence, lip, mouth, neck, nerve, presumption, sauciness, temerity, uppishness), буза (chap), дързост (arrogance, assumption, audacity, contumely, daring, forwardness, hardihood, hardiness, impudence, intrepidity, nerve, pluck, sauce, temerity, uppishness). (various references)

Chamorro

fasu. (various references)

Chinese 

臉� � , 面颊. (various references)

Cornish

bogh. (various references)

Czech

tvář (face, front, visage), líce, drzost (audacity, brass, effrontery, face, front, impertinence, impudence, insolence, nerve, rudeness, sauce). (various references)

Danish

kind (bucca, mala). (various references)

Dutch

wang (bucca, chap, jaw grip, mala, sidewall), koon, kaak (jaw, jawbone). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

ñahui chichu. (various references)

Esperanto

vango. (various references)

Faeroese

vangi. (various references)

Farsi 

لب (Bank, Brink, Lip, Nucleus, Puss), گونه (Breed, Ilk, Jowl, Kind, Nature, Navigate, Sort, Species, Type). (various references)

Finnish

poski. (various references)

French

joue (chap, chop). (various references)

Frisian

wang. (various references)

German

Backe (block, jaw, jowl), wange (jowl, stringboard). (various references)

Greek 

μάγουλο (chap), παρειά (jowl), αναίδεια (brass, brazeness, cheekiness, cockiness, effrontery, impudence). (various references)

Hawaiian

faqe (face). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחי (bow, jowl), ל�"תחצף (be insolent, be rude, sauce). (various references)

Hungarian

orca (cheeks, jowl). (various references)

Indonesian

pipi. (various references)

Inuktitut

uluaq. (various references)

Italian

guancia (jowl). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �っぺた , � �っぺ , � � . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほお, ほっぺた, ほっぺ, ほほ. (various references)

Korean 

뺨. (various references)

Manx

puiss (chop, dial, jowl, kisser, muzzle, pout), gruaie (brow, face, facet, grim countenance, profile, silhouette, temple), gaailley (cattle thrush), daanys (boldness, cockiness, confidence, daring, effrontery, resolution, rudeness, self-assurance), cur eddin da, cur baaish da. (various references)

Maori

paapaaringa. (various references)

Mohawk

ohohkwa. (various references)

Norwegian

kinn. (various references)

Papago

kahm. (various references)

Pig Latin

eekchay.(various references)

Portuguese

face (face, jowl, mug, muz, phiz), mordente (cutting, fixature, nipping, piquant), bochecha (jowl). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

rosto. (various references)

Romanian

pervaz (casing, sill, window sill), obraz (appearance, aspect, countenance, crust, face, index, skin), obrãznicie (audacity, blunder, brass, break, coolness, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, lip, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, sauce, trespass, unruliness), neruşinare (bawdy, brass, effrontery, front, immodesty, impudence, indecency, indecorum, lack of restraint, neck, obsceneness, rudeness, shamelessness), neobrãzare (boldness, contumely, flippancy, immodesty, neck, nerve), insolenţã (contumely, face, impertinence, insolence, piece of insolence), falcã de coloanã, bucã (buttock, buttocks, cheeks), aplomb (assurance, coolness, impudence, self possession, self-assurance). (various references)

Romany

csham. (various references)

Russian 

щека (chap, jaw, jowl). (various references)

Scottish

gruaidh (a cheek). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obraz (honor, honour, jowl). (various references)

Shona

dama. (various references)

Sicilian

guancia. (various references)

Spanish

mejilla (chap), carrillo (jowl, pulley). (various references)

Swedish

kind. (various references)

Thai

แก้ม. (various references)

Turkish

yanak (Malar), yüzsüzlük (boldness, cheekiness, coolness, crust, effrontery, front, gall, impudence, nerve, sauciness, shamelessness), saygısızca konuşmak, küstahlık etmek (behave insolently, get fresh with smb.), küstahlık (arrogance, assuredness, audaciousness, audacity, back chat, backchat, boldness, brass, cheekiness, chutzpa, chutzpah, effrontery, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hardiness, impertinence, insolence, lip, pertness, presumption, temerity), avurt, arsızlık (audacity, cheekiness, crust, effrontery, encroaching vigor, flippancy, front, hardihood, hardiness, immodesty, importunity, impudence, insolence, pertness, sauce, shamelessness), arsızca konuşmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

яaсak, duluk. (various references)

Ukrainian

шока, косяк (cant, cantilever, gibbet, shoal), грубіянити (answer back, sauce, talk up), одвірок (door-post, jamb, jambeau), нахабство (assurance, audacity, barefacedness, chat, contumely, effrontery, hardihood, insolence, insolency, neck, nerve, sauce), зухвалість (assuredness, audacity, barefacedness, chat, effrontery, forwardness, hardiness, immodesty, impertinence, lip, neck, nerve, outrecuidance), бокова стійка, поводитися зухвало (outbrazen, outface). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thói trơ tráo, thân thiết với nhau, tính không biết xấu hổ lời nói láo xược, tớ tớ mình mình, sự cả gan (audaciousness, audacity, cheekiness, daring, temerity), ròng rọc (purchase), nhạo báng (derisive, mockingly, sardonic, sneering), má sự táo tợn, lời nói vô lễ thanh má, giả dối chế nhạo. (various references)

Welsh

cern (jaw), grudd, gran, boch. (various references)

1. te, 1. unug. (various references)

bucca. (various references)

joue. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "cheek": cheekbone, cheekbones, cheeked, cheekful, cheekfuls, cheekier, cheekiest, cheekily, cheekiness, cheekinesses, cheeking, cheeks, cheeky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cheek" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceak, cehe, Chauk, che, cheack, cheak, cheam, chec, chech, chee, Cheech, Cheeee, cheef, Cheen, cheet, Cheez, Cheget, Chehem, cheik, cheil, cheim, chek, ch'el, chenk, cherepki, Cherk, Cheuco, chev, chex, cheze, chiek, Chieke, Choueka, Chuuk, chy, chym, heek, keek, nhek, sheek. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eche, heck.

-2 letters: cee, eke.

-3 letters: eh, he.

+1 letter: cheeks, cheeky, hackee, heckle.

+2 letters: checked, checker, cheeked, chickee, hackees, heckled, heckler, heckles, henpeck, hoecake, kenches, ketches, kimchee, recheck.

+3 letters: buckshee, checkers, cheekful, cheekier, cheekily, cheeking, chickees, cokehead, hecklers, henpecks, hoecakes, kerchief, kimchees, kvetched, kvetches, precheck, rechecks, resketch, schnecke, sketched, sketcher, sketches.

+4 letters: bechalked, buckshees, buckteeth, checkable, checkered, checkless, checkmate, checkrein, cheechako, cheekbone, cheekfuls, cheekiest, chickadee, chickaree, chickened, chickweed, cokeheads, deckhouse, forecheck, hackneyed, henpecked, kerchiefs, kvetchier, leechlike, prechecks, rechecked, schnecken, sketchers, sketchier, thickened, thickener, thicketed, unchecked, whickered.