cheek

cheek
[[t]tʃi͟ːk[/t]]
cheeks
1) N-COUNT Your cheeks are the sides of your face below your eyes.

Tears were running down her cheeks...

She kissed him lightly on both cheeks.

Derived words:
-cheeked COMB in ADJ

...rosy-cheeked children.

...a fat, chubby-cheeked fellow.

2) N-SING: also no det, oft the N to-inf 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!

3) PHRASE: V inflects If you turn the other cheek when someone harms or insults you, you do not harm or insult them them in return.
4) cheek by jowlsee jowl

English dictionary. 2008.

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