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jowly

[ jou-lee, joh- ]

adjective

, jowl·i·er, jowl·i·est.
  1. having prominent jowls. jowl.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of jowly1

First recorded in 1870–75; jowl 1 + -y 1

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Example Sentences

He had a pleasantly jowly face, punctuated by a brushy mustache under his fleshy nose, his pants always fastened to suspenders.

It was those grim-faced, jowly white men with the harsh surnames.

He is similar to Mike Huckabee in this respect, although Huckabee is even less jowly.

Working for the administration is hell on your looks, and at the conference he is even more jowly than usual.

We are not spending ourselves into oblivion, as you hear some jowly bloviator say on television every day.

By midnight, or a little later, Moro Trimmul and the rest of the veterans will be in the woods near Jowly, around the camp.

Of the fifteen hundred gallant cavaliers who had ridden that morning from the camp at Jowly, they were the only survivors.

Did any one suspect us when we sang ballads in the ambush at Jowly, and found out what Moro Trimmul wanted to do?

At the hall entrance he encountered Leonard's huntsman, an impertinent, bony, jowly loafer whom he had never been able to endure.

The sunken orbits of the fat man turned from one to another, his jowly cheeks flapping.

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