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Cheek   /tʃik/   Listen
noun
Cheek  n.  
1.
The side of the face below the eye.
2.
The cheek bone. (Obs.)
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.
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 bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone.
Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate.
Cheek pouch (Zool.), 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.


verb
Cheek  v. t.  To be impudent or saucy to. (Slang.)





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"Cheek" Quotes from Famous Books



... meditative look down the road, turned a quid of tobacco in his cheek, and finally brought his eyes again to ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... family. The event was half over, as Mrs. Bracher, closely followed by Scotch and Hilda, rushed in. The mother, fully dressed, was lying on a wooden bed that fitted into an alcove. She was typically Flemish, of high cheek-bones and very red cheeks. The entire family was grouped about the bed—a boy of twelve years, a girl of nineteen, and a girl of three. Attending the case, was a little old woman, the grandmother, wearing a knitted knobby bonnet, sitting high on the top of her head and tied under ...
— Young Hilda at the Wars • Arthur Gleason
... her with the tiny, whimpering bundle. "Of course she's yours, and the sweetest, fattest darling. Oh, Mag, how I envy you!" She kissed the other's cheek. ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... never think of doing so," I basely assured my little friend, with an appreciative glance at her sparkling eye and dimpled cheek. ...
— The Filigree Ball • Anna Katharine Green
... lap now that the twilight had grown deeper—a silent, gray Quaker sphinx, with one only remembrance out of all her seventy years of life. In the open window sat as in a frame the daughter, a woman of some twenty-five years, rosy yet as only a Quakeress can be when rebel Nature flaunts on the soft cheek the colors its owner may not wear on her gray dress. The outline was of a face clearly cut and noble, as if copied from a Greek gem—a face filled with a look of constant patience too great perhaps ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various


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