cheek by jowl
adv/ˌt͡ʃiːk baɪ ˈd͡ʒaʊl/UK/ˌt͡ʃik baɪ ˈd͡ʒaʊl/US
Etymology
From cheek + by + jowl (“cheek; jaw”) (or possibly jowl (“fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw; cheek”) or jowl (“(obsolete) head”)), suggesting people so close to each other that the cheek of one person is next to the jowl of another.
- inherited from *kelā✻
Definitions
In very close physical proximity
In very close physical proximity; crowded together; side by side.
- Ile go vvith thee, cheeke by iovvle.
- VVee ſee Marchants, countrie-Iuſtices, and Artificers to march cheeke by joll vvith our Nobilitie, in valour, and military diſcipline.
In very close or intimate association.
- [B]ooks have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.
- Exit and voice, social theorist Albert O[tto] Hirschman's famous dichotomous strategies, collided in the South Carolina countryside, where renewed commitment to the nation existed cheek by jowl with exit from it.
Often in the form cheek-by-jowl
Often in the form cheek-by-jowl: in very close physical proximity; crowded together; tightly packed.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA