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jowl
1[ joul, johl ]
noun
- a jaw, especially the lower jaw.
- the cheek.
jowl
2[ joul, johl ]
noun
- a fold of flesh hanging from the jaw, as of a very fat person.
- the meat of the cheek of a hog.
- the dewlap of cattle.
- the wattle of fowls.
jowl
2/ dʒaʊl /
noun
- fatty flesh hanging from the lower jaw
- a similar fleshy part in animals, such as the wattle of a fowl or the dewlap of a bull
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Derived Forms
- jowled, adjective
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Other Words From
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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
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.
There are the best and the worst—all who can pay the price: the reformers cheek by jowl with the mayor and the Boss, by Jove!
This would be cheek-by-jowl with a bet that an heir would be born to one new-married pair before another pair.
The heavy jowl, the staring eye, and the blue-black moustache of the god made up a far-off resemblance to Mulvaney.
"I'll jowl your head for impudence," said Mrs. Morel, and she tied the strings of the black bonnet valiantly under her chin.
His agonised eyes, fear-stricken, glinted white in the moonlight, and there was foam on his jowl.
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