CHEEKS

"CHEEKS" is a plural of: cheek.

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

Mining

Slang in 1811

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Accompaniment

Noun: duality, dualism; duplicity; biplicity, biformity; polarity. two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke, conjugation; dispermy, doublets, dyad, span.

Crosswords: CHEEKS

Both cheeks, both lips, right here! (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

Guys get cheeks as smooth as the inside o' Sarah Elizabeth Murphy's left thigh. (Ticket to Heaven; writing credit: Anne Cameron; Josh Freed)

Unclench your ass cheeks, Delbert, the scary part's over. (The General's Daughter; writing credit: Christopher Bertolini)

The ever-beautiful flowers she had planted with her own hands became nothing more than the lost roses of her cheeks. (Plan 9 from Outer Space; writing credit: Edward D. Wood Jr.)

All four cheeks and a couple of chins. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

It'll stick to your cheeks (In France; performing artist: Frank Zappa)

Grabbing at his cheeks, taking out his neck, (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith)

Her cheeks like the red rose that none could excel (Factory Girl; performing artist: The Roches)

Easy Cheeks (2002)

Deep Cheeks 7 (2001)

Cheeks 8 (1995)

Between the Cheeks 3 (1993)

Cheek to Cheeks (1993)

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Books

• Full House Way to Go, Chipmunk Cheeks (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Rouge on Pockmarked Cheeks (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Wee Willie Winkie's world. It was such a fine day! : great clouds with puffy, wind-blown cheeks ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Her cheeks flushed at the name, and she felt afraid of something, though she knew not what.

She looked four or five years older than Bruno, but she had the same rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes, and the same wealth of curly brown hair.

The pretty little creature gave one a desire to bite her cherry cheeks.

Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking.

If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide, These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.

His cheek bones were high and wide, and strong deep lines cut down his cheeks, in curves beside his mouth.

The cheeks are a slide from the brows into the valley of the face, opposed and diffused by the cheek bones.

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Health

Surprisingly, some people with dry eye may have tears that run down their cheeks. (references)

Infection in the maxillary sinuses can cause your upper jaw and teeth to ache and your cheeks to become tender to the touch. (references)

One common problem is chronic sinusitis (infection and inflammation of the sinuses, air passages in bones of the cheeks, forehead, and jaw). Another common problem is chronic bronchitis (infection and inflammation of the airways leading to the lungs). (references)

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Expressions using "CHEEKS": Cheeks of a block ♦ Cheeks of a mast ♦ chubby cheeks ♦ peachy cheeks ♦ puff out one's cheeks ♦ rosy cheeks ♦ rouge one's cheeks ♦ sunken cheeks. Additional references.

Ending with "CHEEKS": bum-cheeks.

Bulgarian 

задник (arse, backside, breech, bum, buttocks, can, posterior, rear, seat, stern, tail). (various references)

Chinese 

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Czech

tváře, hýždì (buttock, buttocks). (various references)

Danish

vandet frigoeres ved mejselslag (the water comes out of the cheeks of the pick). (various references)

Dutch

het water treedt naar buiten door de verdikte zijkanten van de beitel (the water comes out of the cheeks of the pick). (various references)

Finnish

punoittavat posket (rosy cheeks), punaposkinen (rosy-cheeked, with red cheeks), poskiani kuumoittaa (my cheeks are burning), poskeni ovat paleltuneet (my cheeks are frost-bitten), kuopalla olevat posket (hollow cheeks). (various references)

French

joues. (various references)

German

Wangen (jowls), Backen (bake, baking, cake, Fry, make, stick, to bake). (various references)

Greek 

το νερό εξέρχεται από τις παρειές της εκσκαφτικής σκαπάνης (the water comes out of the cheeks of the pick). (various references)

Hungarian

orca (cheek, jowl). (various references)

Italian

cuòcere (bake, boil, boiling, cook, cooking). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �張る (to stuff one's cheeks), 紅�" (rosy cheeks). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほおばる (to stuff one's cheeks), �"うが�" (audacity, broadminded, great and prosperous, impudence, official, open, public, rosy cheeks, testicles, triumphant). (various references)

Pig Latin

eekschay

Portuguese

a água sai pela parte frontal do martelo picador (the water comes out of the cheeks of the pick). (various references)

Romanian

bucã (buttock, buttocks, cheek). (various references)

Russian 

чиксы. (various references)

Scottish

glòic (having hanging cheeks), gaillseach (a mouth overcharged so that the cheeks swell out, an earwig). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

guzovi. (various references)

Spanish

mejillas. (various references)

Swedish

skinkor, kinder. (various references)

Turkish

yan parçalar, mengene kıskacı. (various references)

Welsh

deurudd. (various references)

genae, genas, geniculorum, mala, malae, malam, malas, malis. (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"CHEEKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ceske, Cheams, chebs, checs, Cheech, cheecks, chees, cheik, chek, chekers, cherepki, chex, chiek, Chieke, Choleski, Choueka, Scheleske. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cheek, eches, hecks.

-2 letters: cees, eche, ekes, heck, seek, skee.

-3 letters: cee, eke, hes, sec, see, she.

-4 letters: eh, es, he, sh.

+1 letter: hackees, heckles, kenches, ketches.

+2 letters: buckshee, checkers, chickees, hecklers, henpecks, hoecakes, kimchees, kvetches, rechecks, resketch, schnecke, sketched, sketcher, sketches.

+3 letters: buckshees, checkless, cheekfuls, cheekiest, cokeheads, deckhouse, kerchiefs, prechecks, schnecken, sketchers, sketchier.

+4 letters: cheapskate, checkmates, checkreins, cheechakos, cheekbones, cheekiness, cheesecake, chickadees, chickarees, chickweeds, deckhouses, forechecks, huckstered, kerchieves, keypunches, kvetchiest, resketched, resketches, schipperke, shankpiece, shellacked, sketchiest, thickeners.