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jowl

noun
/d͡ʒaʊl/

Etymology

From Middle English cholle (“wattle, jowl”), from Old English ċeole (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kelā, from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ (“gullet”) (compare Scots choll, West Frisian kiel, Dutch keel, German Kehle), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelu- (“to swallow”) (compare Old Irish in·gilid (“to graze”), Irish goile (“stomach”), Latin gula (“throat”), gluttiō (“to swallow”), Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow, gulp”), Ancient Greek δέλεαρ (délear, “lure”), Armenian կլանել (klanel, “to swallow”), Persian گلو (galu), Hindi गला (galā, “neck, throat”)).

  1. derived from *gʷelu-✻ — “to swallow”
  2. inherited from *kelǭ✻ — “gullet”
  3. inherited from *kelā✻
  4. inherited from ċeole — “throat”
  5. inherited from cholle — “wattle, jowl”

Definitions

  1. The jaw, jawbone

    The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.

    • I had lain, therefore, all that time, cheek by jowl with Blackbeard himself, with only a thin shell of tinder wood to keep him from me, and now had thrust my hand into his coffin and plucked away his beard.
    • And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]

  2. To throw, dash, or knock.

  3. A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap,…

    A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. The cheek

      The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.

    2. A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts

    3. To knock, bump, strike against

      To knock, bump, strike against; hit, strike; peck at.

    4. To jolt or shake roughly

      To jolt or shake roughly; shake up, mix together.

    5. To rumble.

    6. To toll, knell.

    7. A blow, bump, knock.

    8. The tolling of a bell

      The tolling of a bell; knell.

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Derived

jowly, cheek and jowl, cheek by jowl, tooth-to-jowl

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