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cheek Definition


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cheek
noun
    1. Either side of the face below the eye; the fleshy wall of the mouth.
    2. Impudent speech or behaviour.
    3. colloq
      Either of the buttocks.
Idiom: cheek by jowl
    Very close together.
Idiom: turn the other cheek
    To refuse to retaliate.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon ceace or cece.



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