cheek
The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
Noun 4 meanings
The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.
Impudence.
“You’ve got some cheek, asking me for money!”
One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
Verb 3 meanings
To be impudent towards.
“Don't cheek me, you little rascal!”
To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.
To put or keep something in one’s cheek.
“The squirrel cheeked some nuts before heading back to its nest.”
Etymology
From Middle English cheeke, cheke, cheoke, choke, from Old English ċēce, ċēace, ċēoce (“cheek; jaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *kākā, *keukā (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *kēkǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”).
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CHEEK at a glance
CHEEK has 5 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (C 3 + H 4 + E 1 + E 1 + K 5) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,420 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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