Definitions for jowl

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Spelling: [joul, johl]

IPA: /dʒaʊl, dʒoʊl/

Jowl is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in jowl (jlow).

Definitions for jowl

noun

1. a jaw, especially the lower jaw.
2. the cheek.
3. a fold of flesh hanging from the jaw, as of a very fat person.
4. the meat of the cheek of a hog.
5. the dewlap of cattle.
6. the wattle of fowls.

Origin of jowl

before 1000; Middle English chawl, chavell, Old English ceafl jaw; cognate with Dutch kevel, German Kiefer, Old Norse kjaptr

Examples for jowl

Their wives and families are with them, living cheek by jowl.

Moisture gathered on his jet-black nose; he licked his jowl.

Gulwing and Hartridge were over there on the sofa, cheek by jowl, and all was going well.

If there is an element of annoyance mingled with the surprise, An jowl!

Then their noses touched, and he felt the warm little tongue of the puppy on his jowl.

And Czerny could live here, cheek by jowl with these fearsome mysteries!

It was intolerable to ride thus cheek by jowl with a goblin.

Guardians of the body cheek by jowl with guardians of the soul.

They are places where people sit cheek to jowl, maybe sneezing, maybe coughing, maybe puking.

A lot of us who live in cities…we live cheek to jowl with the dead.