Adjacent Words

Cheek definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHEEK, n.
1. The side of the face below the eyes on each side.
2. Among mechanics, cheeks are those pieces of a machine which form corresponding sides, or which are double and alike; as the cheeks of a printing press, which stand perpendicular and support the three sommers, the head, shelves and winter; the cheeks of a turners lathe; the cheeks of a glaziers vise; the cheeks of a mortar, and of a gun-carriage; the cheeks of a mast, which serve to sustain the trestle trees, etc.
Cheek by jowl, closeness, proximity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: either side of the face below the eyes
2: an impudent statement [syn: impudence, cheek, impertinence]
3: either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump [syn: buttock, cheek]
4: impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty" [syn: boldness, nerve, brass, face, cheek] v
1: speak impudently to

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English cheke, from Old English c?ace; akin to Middle Low German k?ke jawbone Date: before 12th century 1. the fleshy side of the face below the eye and above and to the side of the mouth; broadly the lateral aspect of the head 2. something suggestive of the human cheek in position or form; especially one of two laterally paired parts 3. insolent boldness and self-assurance 4. buttock 1 Synonyms: see temerity • cheekful noun II. transitive verb Date: 1840 chiefly British to speak rudely or impudently to

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a the side of the face below the eye. b the side-wall of the mouth. 2 a impertinent speech. b impertinence; cool confidence (had the cheek to ask for more). 3 sl. either buttock. 4 a either of the side-posts of a door etc. b either of the jaws of a vice. c either of the side-pieces of various parts of machines arranged in lateral pairs. --v.tr. speak impertinently to. Phrases and idioms: cheek-bone the bone below the eye. cheek by jowl close together; intimate. turn the other cheek accept attack etc. meekly; refuse to retaliate. Etymology: OE ce(a)ce, ceoce

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cheek Cheek (ch[=e]k), n. [OE. cheke, cheoke, AS. ce[`a]ce, ce[`o]ce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak cheek; perh. akin to E. chew, jaw.] 1. The side of the face below the eye. 2. The cheek bone. [Obs.] --Caucer. 3. pl. (Mech.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc. 4. pl. The branches of a bridle bit. --Knight. 5. (Founding) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask. 6. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang] Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef. Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone. Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate. Cheek pouch (Zo["o]l.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food. Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block. Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest. Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth. Butment cheek. See under Butment.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cheek Cheek, v. t. To be impudent or saucy to. [Slang.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cheeks) 1. Your cheeks are the sides of your face below your eyes. Tears were running down her cheeks... She kissed him lightly on both cheeks. N-COUNT • -cheeked ...rosy-cheeked children. COMB in ADJ 2. You say that someone has a cheek when you are annoyed or shocked at something unreasonable that they have done. (INFORMAL) I'm amazed they had the cheek to ask in the first place... I still think it's a bit of a cheek sending a voucher rather than a refund... The cheek of it, lying to me like that! N-SING: also no det, oft the N to-inf 3. If you turn the other cheek when someone harms or insults you, you do not harm or insult them them in return. PHRASE: V inflects 4. cheek by jowl: see jowl

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Smiting on the cheek was accounted a grievous injury and insult (Job 16:10; Lam. 3:30; Micah 5:1). The admonition (Luke 6:29), "Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other," means simply, "Resist not evil" (Matt. 5:39; 1 Pet. 2:19-23). Ps. 3:7 = that God had deprived his enemies of the power of doing him injury.

Moby Thesaurus

arse, ass, backside, bank, beam, behind, border, bottom, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, breech, broadside, bum, butt, can, cheeks, chop, chutzpah, coast, confidence, crust, derriere, duff, face, fanny, flank, gall, hand, handedness, haunch, heroics, hip, hubris, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, jowl, keister, laterality, many-sidedness, multilaterality, nerve, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, planking, prat, presumption, profile, quarter, rashness, rusty-dusty, shore, side, siding, stern, tail, temerariousness, temerity, temple, tuchis, tush, tushy, unchariness, unilaterality, unwariness