Definitions for cheek

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cheek cheek

Spelling: [cheek]

IPA: /tʃik/

Cheek is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in cheek (ceehk).

Definitions for cheek

noun

1. either side of the face below the eye and above the jaw.
2. the side wall of the mouth between the upper and lower jaws.
3. something resembling the side of the human face in form or position, as either of two parts forming corresponding sides of various objects:
4. impudence or effrontery:
5. Slang. either of the buttocks.
6. Architecture. one side of an opening, as a reveal. either of two similar faces of a projection, as a buttress or dormer.
7. Carpentry. a piece of wood removed from the end of a timber in making a tenon. a piece of wood on either side of a mortise.
8. one side of a hammer head.
9. Horology. one of two pieces placed on both sides of the suspension spring of a pendulum to control the amplitude of oscillation or to give the arc of the pendulum a cycloidal form.
10. one of the two main vertical supports forming the frame of a hand printing press.
11. Machinery. either of the sides of a pulley or block.
12. Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a lower mast, used to support trestletrees which in turn support a top and often the heel of a topmast; one of the hounds of a lower mast.
13. Metallurgy. any part of a flask between the cope and the drag.

Idioms

1. cheek by jowl, in close intimacy; side by side:
2. (with) tongue in cheek. tongue (def 37).

Origin of cheek

before 900; Middle English cheke, Old English cē(a)ce; akin to Dutch kaak, Middle Low German kake

Examples for cheek

Couldst see by his cheek and eye that he is as bitter as verjuice.

Bakari reaches out, strokes Bundy's cheek and stares into his eyes longingly.

There was a scar on one cheek, and, altogether, he was not very prepossessing in his appearance.

“The lies of the government shocked us,” says Fatima, as the tears flow slowly from her eyes and down her cheek.

No, he could not—which admission did not lessen the glow on his cheek.

The fingers that held the petal tingled, and a flush rose in her cheek.

Scrutinizing the lines on your face, she strokes your cheek and asks if your boss is working you too hard.

But in the scene where the girl kisses me on the cheek, I start to cry.

But Tony Bennett will get a free pass on his latest release, cheek to cheek.

He held her hand affectionately in his, and often drew her toward him, that he might kiss her cheek.