Definitions for jowls

jowls jowl

Spelling: [joul, johl]
IPA: /dʒaʊl, dʒoʊl/

Jowls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in jowls (jlosw).

Definitions for jowls

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 jowls

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

Examples for jowls

The jowls are taken off the head and salted with the bacon and hams.

jowls and beans were cheap; he could afford to be liberal with that meal.

When at length she gave it up, his jowls were only a few shades lighter.

Leno's face, although it glows with the rubbery health of the often-exfoliated, is falling, and jowls are begging to form.

He nodded, and this time his jowls bobbled instead of wobbled.

The newcomer vainly strove to move his icebound jaws and jowls.

The cat was heavier now and licking his jowls with contentment.

Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.

And he rubbed my hand over the cold nose and jowls of a dog.

The wub waited good-naturedly, licking the water from its jowls.

Word Value for jowls
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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