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face cheek

noun

Etymology

From face + cheek, by analogy with butt cheek.

  1. derived from *ǵyewh₁-✻ — “to chew”
  2. inherited from *kēkǭ✻
  3. inherited from *kākā✻
  4. inherited from ċēce
  5. inherited from cheeke
  6. formed as face cheek — “face + cheek”

Definitions

  1. One of the cheeks of a person's face.

    • Shut your face cheeks!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for face cheek. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA