cheek : Idioms & Phrases

• (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear.

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• (Anat.) the bone of the side of the fase; esp., the malar bone.

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• adverb in close proximity
  
  • the houses were jumbled together cheek by jowl

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• side by side; very intimate.

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• noun a muscle that flattens the cheek and retracts the angle of the mouth
  musculus buccinator; buccinator muscle.
  

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• . See Illust. of Beef.

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• noun a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher)
  

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• (Zoöl.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.

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• (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth.

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• the two sides of the shell of a tackle block.

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• the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest.

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• adjective satellite having bony plates on the sides of the head
  

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• adjective satellite having the pinkish flush of health
  flushed; rose-cheeked; rosy.
  

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• adjective satellite having the pinkish flush of health
  flushed; rose-cheeked; rosy.
  

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• adjective satellite cleverly amusing in tone
  facetious; bantering.
  
  • a bantering tone
  • facetious remarks
  • tongue-in-cheek advice
• adverb in a bantering fashion
  banteringly.
  
  • he spoke to her banteringly
• adverb not seriously
  facetiously; jokingly.
  
  • I meant it facetiously

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