cheekn.

Brit.

/tʃiːk/, U.S.

/tʃik/

Forms: Old English ceac- (in compounds), Old English ceace, Old English cece (rare), Old English ceica (Northumbrian, dative), Old English ceke (Mercian), Old English ceoc- (in compounds), Old English ceoce, early Middle English cheoke, Middle English cheake, Middle English cheche, Middle English check, Middle English scheke, Middle English schyk, Middle English–1500s chek, Middle English–1500s chyke, Middle English–1600s cheeke, Middle English–1600s cheke, Middle English–1600s chieke, 1500s chieck, 1500s chieque, 1500s chikis (plural), 1500s–1600s cheeck, 1500s– cheek, 2000s– chack (English regional (Cornwall)); also Scottish pre-1700 cheik, pre-1700 cheike, pre-1700 cheyke, pre-1700 chyke, pre-1700 chykkis (plural), pre-1700 schek, 2000s– chick (north-eastern); Irish English (northern) 1900s– chick; N.E.D. (1889) also records a form Middle English chik(e.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate (with variation in stem class and root vowel) with Old Frisian sziāke , tziāke (West Frisian (Schiermonnikoog) tjaik ), Middle Dutch cāke , caek (Dutch kaak ), Middle Low German kāke , kēke , all in sense ‘jaw, jawbone, cheek’, Old Icelandic kók gullet, throat, Norwegian kjake jaw, jowl, (Nynorsk) kok throat, Old Swedish kæke jaw (Swedish käke ), Swedish regional kjåk jaw, Old Danish kæghe jaw (Danish kaje , Danish regional kæg ); further etymology unknown. Compare choke n.¹Further etymology. No secure cognates have been identified outside Germanic. The Germanic cognates apparently show the reflex of several different stem vowels that are not easily reconcilable. The vocalism and root structure (two identical plosives) of the pre-Germanic base have been taken to suggest an origin in a non-Indo-European substrate language, although this is not universally accepted. Derivation from a Germanic n -stem noun from the same base as chew v. has alternatively been suggested, but this presents phonological problems. Form history. In English at least two different stem vowels are represented. Old English (West Saxon) cēace is traditionally assumed to show a long diphthong, the reflex of early Old English ǣ ( < West Germanic ā ), before which the initial velar consonant was regularly palatalized, the palatal in turn causing diphthongization of the following vowel to ēa ; Anglian cēce , the antecedent of modern standard English cheek, can be interpreted as showing the direct equivalent of this (with regular Anglian ē < ǣ ). The less frequent West Saxon form cēoce apparently reflects a different stem vowel, the reflex of the same Germanic diphthong (eu ) that also appears in Old Frisian sziāke . However, Anglian cēce could also be explained as showing the reflex of the same diphthong as cēoce (with Anglian smoothing), while alternative phonological explanations have also been suggested for West Saxon cēace , e.g. as the reflex of Germanic au , or even as showing a short, rather than long, stem vowel. For further possible reflexes of Old English cēoce , cēace in Middle English see choke n.¹ and discussion at that entry. Semantic development. Compare chin n.¹ which shows a similar range of meanings in Germanic. With sense 3 (relating to impudence) compare similar semantic developments at face n. 3, forehead n. 2, front n. 4; perhaps similarly arising from the concept of command of facial expression and apparent lack of shame. Compare also jowl n.¹ 2, jaw n.¹ 6.

I. Senses relating to the part of the body.

†1.

a. The jaw; a jawbone, esp. the mandible. Cf. cheek bone n. 1. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [noun]

wangc975

leerc1000

cheekOE

haffet1513

jowl1668

chap1709

gena1826

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > jawbones > upper

cheekOE

maxilla?a1425

superior maxilla1697

maxillary1826

upper1878

OE tr. Bili St. Machutus 25 Þa se halga wer mid his hand wæs handligende þa stowa þæs cildes welera, he natoþoshwon ontynan ne mihte þara toþa gebind; he sona..gebletsade þæt gefeg þara cecana.

OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 97 Mandibula, ceacban, uel ceacan, uel cinban.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 57 Þe twa cheken beoð twa grind stanes þe tunge is þe cleppe.

a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1528 (MED) Þin heued ffor-wounded..Cheken and eren al fforbete wiþ boffettes.

c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 40 And hadde no wepne but an Asses cheke.

a1500 (?c1414) Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms 11 (MED) Lord..streyne here chekys [L. maxillas] fro woordys ydell, That kan noȝt holdyn here tungys stylle.

b. Frequently in plural. The cavity of the mouth; the palate; the fauces. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [noun] > fauces

cheekeOE

fauces?1541

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. iv. 48 Smire þone sweoran mid: þæt biþ strang sealf & god..wiþ þara ceacna geswelle oððe asmorunge.

OE Arundel Psalter xxi. 16 Lingua mea adhesit faucibus meis : tunge min toclyfode gomum uel ceacan minum.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 73 Cleued be mi tunge to mine cheken gif ich forgete þe ierusalem.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 248 (MED) Þe dyaþ his nimþ sodaynliche, ase me nimþ þane viss by þe cheake, þet is to zigge, þe morsel ine þe mouþe.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxxi. 12 Ne opene thou out thi cheeke rathere.

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 27 (MED) Faux, a chyke & a chykebon.

a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 626 Cheke, faux.

c. figurative. The outer part of an arm or inlet of the sea. Obsolete. rare.

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?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 49 (MED) The chekes and begynnenges [L. fauces originales] of those armes of the see.

1598 W. Phillip tr. Descr. Voy. E. Indies 32 We sayled into the cheeke with our shippe.

a. In humans or animals: either of the outer sides of the face, between the eye and the jaw. Also: either of the fleshy inside walls of the mouth.In early use probably with wider reference to the whole of the lower face and chin.

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eOE Laws of Ælfred (Corpus Cambr. 173) l. 80 Gif monnes ceacan [altered from eacan; L. (Quadripartitus) genas, siue os maxillare] mon forslihð, þæt hie beoð forode, gebete mid xv scillingum.

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. v. 39 Si quis te percusserit in dextera maxilla tua præbe illi et altera[m] : gif hua ðec slaes in suiðra ceica ðin [OE Rushw. Gospels on ðæt swiðran wonge uel ceke þin; OE West Saxon Gospels: Corpus Cambr. on þin swyþre wenge] sel uel gef him & ðy oðera.

OE Brussels Gloss. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 290 Male, ceocan.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 84 Me tobeot his cheken.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 615 Ys chyke þat swerd þo cam so neȝ [orig. draft His cheche þat swerd cam ful neyȝ].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 24533 I kest him þan bath frunt and chek [Fairf. cheke], Muth and nese, and eien eke.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. cvi^v When thou seeth thy hauke vppon his mouth and his chekis blobbed.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit vi. A Moses was an hundreth and twentye yeare olde whan he dyed: his eyes were not dymme, and his chekes were not fallen.

1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 264 Throw^t baith the cheikis.

a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1615) sig. B3 When others kisse with lip, you giue the cheeke.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 602 Care Sat on his faded cheek .

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 317. ¶45 Mr. Nisby dined with me. First Course Marrow-bones, Second, Ox Cheek.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. liv. 196 I signified my contempt of him, by thrusting my tongue in my cheek.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 185 The tears stole silent down her cheeks.

1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 595 The Cheeks (Genæ) form the lateral walls of the mouth... Externally they have no precise limits.

1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Buffalo Express 1 Jan. 2/6 Conrad's color came back to his cheeks.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 67 Frank rude health glowed in her face, on her fat red cheeks and in her unabashed blue eyes.

1962 I. Asimov Chemicals of Life (ed. 2) iv. 57 There are salivary glands..in the cheeks and under the tongue.

2007 R. Millward Apples ix. 106 She gave me a big kiss on the cheek leaving two wet cherry lips.

b. figurative. Something regarded as comparable to a human cheek in shape or colouring.Extended senses alluding to the position of the cheeks on either side of the face are treated in branch II.

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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 55 The cloudie cheekes of heauen.

1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xxxvi. 470 To colour the cheeks of our Apples, and enlarge the Sphære of our Cabbages.

1770 J. Armstrong Misc. I. 152 Rude hurricanes, Discharged from the wind-swoln cheeks of heaven, Buoy up the swilling skirts of Araby's Inhospitable wilds.

1813 Ld. Byron Giaour (new ed.) 2 Ocean's cheek Reflects the tints of many a peak.

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. i. 27 Every flower of fairest cheek.

1914 Overland Monthly Aug. 206 Now fades the flush From Heaven's cheeks and hers.

1976 N. Maclean River runs through It 69 She has LO tattooed on one cheek of her ass and VE on the other.

2012 K. K. Myers Vanishing Game ix. 80 A white jet stream left a swelling gash across the cheek of the sky.

c. Either of the buttocks. Usually in plural.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun]

flitcha700

arse-endseOE

culec1220

buttockc1300

tail1303

toutec1305

nagea1325

fundamentc1325

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brawna1382

buma1387

bewschers?a1400

crouponc1400

rumplec1430

lendc1440

nachec1440

luddocka1475

rearwarda1475

croupc1475

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bottom?c1550

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podex1601

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stern1631

cheek1639

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doup1653

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bumfiddle1661

assa1672

butt1675

quarter1678

foundation1681

toby1681

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rear1716

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moon1756

derrière1774

rass1790

stern-post1810

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hinderland1817

hinderling1817

nancy1819

ultimatum1823

behinda1830

duff?1837

botty1842

rear end1851

latter end1852

hinder?1857

sit1862

sit-me-down1866

stern-works1879

tuchus1886

jacksy-pardy1891

sit-upon1910

can1913

truck-end1913

sitzfleisch1916

B.T.M.1919

fanny1919

bot1922

heinie1922

beam1929

yas yas1929

keister1931

batty1935

bim1935

arse-end1937

twat1937

okole1938

bahookie1939

bohunkus1941

quoit1941

patoot1942

rusty-dusty1942

dinger1943

jacksie1943

zatch1950

ding1957

booty1959

patootie1959

buns1960

wazoo1961

tush1962

1639 Deloney's Gentile Craft: 2nd Pt. (rev. ed.) ii. ii. sig. Ciij Spied both his great cheekes full of small blisters.

1721 ‘I. Bickerstaff’ Mod. Poetasters 16 Goose. Her lower Cheeks are..white, plump and beautiful.

?1790 Maid of Mill 27 Dick gave her such a hearty smack, that made her cheeks ring like bell metal.

1871 E. Thomas Chron. Pathán Kings of Delhi 164 ‘Whatever was found deficient’ in the articles purchased was made up by ‘flesh equal to the deficiency’, cut from the seller's ‘two cheeks’ [buttocks].

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vi. [Hades] 89 Shift stuck between the cheeks behind.

1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 369 The tail-lights are cloacal, the rear is split like the cheeks of a drum-majorette.

2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 108 At every opportunity, he'd take a running swat between my cheeks, driving his fingers as far up my ass as my checked pants would allow.

d. Palaeontology. In trilobites: a part of the cephalon located lateral and anterior to the glabella (on each side).In many trilobite species, the cheek is divided by the facial suture into an inner portion next to the glabella (fixed cheek) and an outer portion (free cheek).

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1824 Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 327 Each of the lateral lobes or cheeks..is also provided with a double row of tubercles nearly equal in size to each other, and placed below the eye parallel to the external border.

1884 H. Woodward Monogr. Brit. Carboniferous Trilobites 40 The eyes are very small, placed far back on the cheeks and near the basal lobes; the granulations on the head and cheeks are coarse and closely placed.

1946 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 8) 356 The eye is entirely on the free cheek, but rests on a buttress or lobe in the adjacent part of the fixed cheek (the palpebral lobe).

2015 D. R. Prothero Story Life in 25 Fossils 38 The cheek regions broke off from the central part of the cephalon..during molting, so most trilobite fossils consist of just the center of the cephalon.

3. colloquial.

a. Presumptuous or disrespectful behaviour or attitude; impudence, effrontery, audacity; (also) an instance of this. Frequently in to have the cheek (to do something). Cf. face n. 3.

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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun]

hardiessec1300

boldness1377

malapertness?a1439

over-boldnessc1450

insolencya1513

protervitya1527

impudency1529

sauce malapert1529

petulancy1537

procacitya1538

audacity1545

sauceliness1552

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outfacing1598

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impudentness1599

petulancea1600

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impertinence1612

impudencea1616

procacya1620

affrontedness1640

brow1642

front1653

insolence1668

affrontery1679

assurance1699

effrontery1715

affrontiveness1721

swagger1725

imperence1765

cheek1823

sassiness1834

cheekiness1838

pawk1855

gall1882

chutzpah1886

face1890

mouth1891

crust1900

rind1901

smarting1902

hide1916

brass neck1937

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > be or become impudent [verb (intransitive)] > be impudent enough to

to have the face (to do something)?1562

to have the conscience1595

to have the cheek (to do something)1823

to have a nerve1887

1823 ‘B. Truck’ Man-of-war's-man in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 271/2 But the rogue had such an invincible cheek, and so smooth and oily a tongue.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House liv. 517 On account of his having so much cheek.

1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. II. x. 229 He can't have the cheek to ask for more.

1885 Standard 13 May 2/7 It showed a considerable amount of ‘cheek’ on the part of the hon. Baronet that he should come forward once more with his project.

1922 W. S. Maugham On Chinese Screen xiii. 59 I almost thought the blighters would have the confounded cheek to shoot me.

1964 Listener 16 Apr. 624/2 ‘Television dramatists’..have the cheek to use television techniques in stage plays.

1987 Waterways World Apr. 38/1 It seeming a bit of a cheek to stop this busy road for four idle holidaymakers.

2006 Independent 28 Feb. 38/4 And how can he have the fathomless cheek to return to public life after being ruined.

b. Impudent, insolent, or disrespectful speech. Chiefly in to give cheek. Cf. jaw n.¹ 6.

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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech

sauce malapert1529

petulancea1652

jaw1748

snash1786

slack-jaw1797

slang1805

gob1807

lip1821

cheek1825

slack1825

sass1841

back-talk1858

back sass1883

mouth1891

slack lip1899

back-chat1901

chin1902

slop1952

the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > be or become impudent [verb (intransitive)] > use impudent language

to have drunk of sauce's cup?1499

to have eaten sauce?1499

snash1802

to give cheek1825

sass1866

to talk back1869

back-chat1927

back-talk1934

1825 ‘B. Truck’ Man-of-war's-man in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 704/1 Come, come, Mahoney, we wants none of your cheek.

1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxii. 158 The man, who was a sulky, saucy sort of chap, and no seaman, I've a notion, gives cheek.

1884 G. Moore Mummer's Wife (1887) 133 If he gives me any of his cheek I'll knock him down.

1901 E. L. Voynich Jack Raymond ii. 39 Now, then, none of your cheek!

1965 N. Hilliard Power of Joy 133 They..stuffed grass down the necks of girls who gave cheek.

2011 S. Webb Love & Other Drama Ramas (2014) ii. 21 I spent nearly every lunchtime doing lines in detention for giving cheek in class.

II. Either of two sides, parts, etc., and related senses.

4. gen. Either of two corresponding sides of an object.

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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > the side of anything

sideeOE

cheeka1400

coasta1400

wing?1482

flank1624

siding1627

broadside1632

a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 469 (MED) Þe chekes of þe chayr wer..Couered myd a riche cloþe.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. l. 180 (MED) The heer do barbe away from eyther cheeke Of euery roote.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions Pref. 8 So joynyng in confederacie, [they]..framed vp cotages, one by anothers chieque, etc.

1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 147 Some sprinkling scattering Drops..moistned the Cheeks of the craggy Rocks.

1789 W. Gilpin Observ. Picturesque Beauty Scotl. I. xiii. 125 The river makes a noble rush..between the two cheeks of the rock, which support the bridge.

1834 Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 653 The strata are deposited in concentric arches upon a diameter which forms the right cheek of the fissure.

1950 R. B. Inverarity Art Northwest Coast Indians 178 One side of the box is carved with a beaver's head with two smaller heads projecting from its cheeks.

5. Either of the side posts or uprights of a door, gate, etc.; cf. door-cheek n., gate-cheek n. at gate n.¹ Compounds 2. Also: either of the side pieces of a window frame.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > framing > part of framing

jamb1428

scuncheon1435

cheek1485

scunch1611

ancon1706

shutting stile1909

backband1940

1485–6 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 258 For a cheke to þe same wyndowe iiijd.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 229 Set evinly Betuix the chekys [1489 Adv. chekis] of the ȝet.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 106 Meete for the cheekes and postes of Gates.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. vi. 571 The sils, lintels, & cheeks of his dores.

1753 A. Henderson Hist. Rebellion (ed. 5) iii. 107 One Bullet..flew to the Distance of about fifty Yards, upon the Cheek of a Shop Door which it carried away.

1855 Death J. Robbins 20 One man stood by the cheek of the door and balanced himself, and then tried to fire in that position.

1910 Fortn. Rev. Sept. 545 The robin that perched on the cheek of the gate-post.

1961 Thatcher's Craft (new ed.) iv. 153 The brow-course is started next to the window..which when dressed back into a cheek..is much neater in appearance.

1988 Architects' Jrnl. 20 Jan. 59/1 The sides, or cheeks, of dormers should be designed as walls.

a. Either of a pair of side pieces in a machine, structure, or manufactured object.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > other parts

neck?a1425

buttc1425

cheek1487

wing1577

face1601

ear1678

wood1683

strig1703

thumb-piece1760

jaws1789

crown1796

lug1833

sprig1835

point angle1869

bulb1885

nosepiece1983

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun] > of specific shape

cheek1487

ward1599

screw worm1648

ball1675

swan-neck1686

cone1832

goose-neck1843

spider1860

concave1874

1487 Cely Papers in Eng. Stud. (1961) 42 150 A hamber and for pyns and chekys for the gonnys.

1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iii. f.118^v Take a presse made with strong cheekes.

1668 in R. Elton Compl. Body Art Mil. (new ed.) Suppl. 248 For the Traverses..that joyn these Planks together, the foremost..must enter one half of a Diameter in length into either of the Cheeks or Planks.

1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 187 When the Wheel is used, its Edge stands athwart the Cheeks of the Lathe.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Trunnions of a Peece of Ordnance, are those Nobs or Bunches of the Guns Metal which bear her up upon the Cheeks of the Carriages.

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 329 Then with the Bar he pulls the Spindle hard down upon the Plattin, and Sets the edges of a Paper-board between the Bar and the further Cheek of the Press.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) The cheeks of a mortar, or the brackets, in artillery..are fixed to the bed by four bolts.

1830 E. S. N. Campbell Dict. Mil. Sci. 38 Cheeks of an embrazure, the interior Faces or Sides of an Embrazure.

1838 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 25 282 Although the cheeks of the vice have met upon a hard object, as a piece of iron, the screw can be turned considerably farther.

1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. ii. 50 A thick piece of pine or mahogany is glued firmly on the front and back..named the sound-board cheeks.

1918 Foundry Jan. 14/1 The pattern and gate are then set and the cheek of the flask placed and rammed.

1944 E. E. Haycraft in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder v. 199/1 These dowels are made to act as draw-bore pins by staggering the holes through the cheeks of the mortise with that through the tenon.

1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches (1963) 54 Cycloidal cheeks, curved plates each side of the suspension of a pendulum to make it swing in a cycloid instead of an arc.

2013 J. Rose Compl. Pract. Machinist vi. 140 It is the best plan to let the crosshead cheeks rest upon the markingoff table or plate.

b. Either of the sides of a grate or fireplace. Now chiefly historical.See also fire cheek n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a, ingle-cheek n.

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1721 True Inventory Sir John Fellowes 21 A Grate with Cheeks, and Iron Back.

1740 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) Cheeks, also the flat iron plates that are put into grates to bound the fire, whereby it may be increased or diminished at pleasure.

1812 Monthly Mag. 1 Dec. 428/2 [Fit] the fire-grate, viz. the back and cheeks of the fire-grate, to the back and cheeks of the outer grate.

1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic iii. iii. 567 The sides or ‘cheeks’ of the grate.

1933 D. A. Mackenzie Stroopie Well 3 When these were thoroughly fired, they were placed on the ‘cheeks’ of the fire-place.

1983 D. J. Eveleigh Firegrates & Kitchen Ranges 15/1 The width of the fire [in a range] could be adjusted by movable sides, known as cheeks, which were wound in and out by a rack and pinion.

2009 Victorian Nov. 28/1 The most likely things to have survived are cast iron grates with tiled cheeks, floor tiles in the hallway, [etc.].

a. Either of the side straps or pieces of a horse's bridle, connecting the headpiece with the bit. Cf. cheekpiece n. 1a.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of

headstallc1330

trench1480

stalk1497

musrol1551

head-strain?1561

water-chain?1561

throat band1585

cavesson1598

mullen1598

nose bit?a1600

front-stall1601

ampyx1607

chain1607

fillet1607

cheek-band1611

cheekpiece1611

noseband1611

throat thong1611

headpiece1678

throatlatch1693

headband1704

trenchefil1730

bridoon1744

banquet1753

head1756

cheek1795

throat strap1803

frontlet1805

throat-lash1805

cheekstrap1834

brow-band1844

nosepiece1865

shank1879

?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding iii. xxiv. sig. E.iii Lette the chekes of your bridle be right out, and not compassed.

1591 R. Turnbull Expos. Epist. St. Iames f. 146 Of horses, who are gouerned by the bitte and cheeke of the bridle.

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. vii. v. 1084 The Mule which the Prete rideth on, hath a very faire ornament aboue her bridle, which hath in the cheekes of the bridle, two Cordons of Silke with goodly Tassels.

1728 Exercise for Horse, Dragoons, & Foot Forces (Great Brit. Army) 14 Facing to the left about on the Right Heel, take hold of the Left Cheek of the Bridle with the Right Hand.

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 167 The bitt is buckled in the top loop to the cheek of the bridle.

1836 Spirit of Times 9 July 162/2 An awkward looking striker of old Thompson's holding her by the cheek of the bridle.

1963 E. H. Edwards Saddlery iii. 24 The cheeks, to which the bit is secured and which buckle on to the points of the head.

1992 F. McWhorter & J. R. Erickson Horse Fixin’ iii. 55 If one bites me too hard or too often, I take him by the cheek of the bridle and kick him in the belly.

b. Either of the vertical bars of a horse's bit, attached to either side of the bit-mouth.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit > parts of

cannon?1561

cheek?1561

port?1561

player1566

upset mouth1566

rowel1590

mouth1607

upset1607

liberty1667

mouthpiece1728

top-roll1728

cheekpiece1864

branch1884

bit-maker1902

?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding i. x. sig. C.ii The diuerse fashyons of byttes together with the membres therof, as the chekes, kurbles, portes, trenches, and suche like.

1593 G. Markham Disc. Horsmanshippe ii. sig. F But if he be..gentle mouthed, then shall the cheeke of your Bytte be made but vppon one degree.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 68 The cheeke..I take to be but from the neathermoste part of the eye of the byt downeward, to the vtmost length of the byt.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Bit The several Parts..of a Snaffle or Curb-Bit, are, the Mouth-Piece, the Cheeks and Eyes, [etc.].

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 167 The Bitt is an iron instrument placed in a horse's mouth..they are of different forms, some are made to be sharper in the mouth, and for a stronger purchase than others, and are called the straight cheek, the duke, and portmouth bitt.

?1847 T. Brown Man. Mod. Farriery i. 376 Some horses are so cunning as to get the cheek of the bit into their mouth.

1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 232/2 A small strap..passing from cheek of the bit through a ring in the centre of the curb chain to the other cheek.

1907 Jrnl. Agric. (W. Austral. Dept. Agric.) Oct. 791 Snaffles with cheeks and curb-bits should be avoided when a horse is sent by rail.

1988 J. Loriston-Clarke in S. McBane Horse & Bit xiii. 129/1 The oblique lines of coupling reins can cause swivelling cheeks to press uncomfortably on the muzzles of horses in pair harness.

†8.

a. Either of the metal side-pieces of a pike (pike n.⁴ 1) which secure the head to the staff or handle. Also in later use: either of similar side-pieces of a hammer, pick, etc. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > pike > [noun] > head > side-piece of

cheek1598

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 36 A good Pike..of seuenteen or eighteen foote long at the least, well and strongly headed, with the cheekes three foote long.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. iii. 25 During the parley..they stood..every one trayling his Pike, and holding the cheeke thereof in his hand, ready to push.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 99 Cheeks, extensions of the sides of the eye of a hammer or pick.

b. The action or position of cheeking a pike: see cheek v. 2. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > weapon-training > manual exercise > position of weapon > positions of pike

cheek1635

comport1635

1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline ii. 9 From Comport, Cheeke, or Treile, the Pikeman may..charge either to the Front, Reere, or both Flanks.

9. Nautical.

a. Either of the outer pieces of a block (block n. 2a) which enclose a sheave or pulley. Also occasionally: the outer piece of a half-block (half block n.); (also) the surface to which a half-block is fastened.

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a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) Snatch block is a greate Block with the Sheever in it and a Notch cutt through one of the Cheeks of it by which Notch they reeve anie Roape into it.

1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 17 The sides of the blockes, are called the cheekes.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 150 Cheeks of a block. The two sides of the shell.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 188 A one-cheeked block; the spar to which it is fastened being the other cheek.

1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 22 A cheek with a sheave in it is secured on the top side of the bees, on each side, to form a lead for the fore guys.

1902 U.S. Patent 711,796 3/1 The block herein described having a shell comprising cheeks, with an annular sheave-protecting guard along their inside outer edge.

1959 Boatswain's Mate 3 & 2 (U.S. Bureau Navy Personnel) (new ed.) xi. 315 Oval blocks are built to the same specifications as diamond blocks, except that the cheeks are oval instead of diamond shaped.

2012 N. Loenen Wooden Boat Building vii. 147 To align the holes in the cheeks and those in the brass straps, temporarily assemble each block with the brass straps in place but without the sheave.

b. Either of the horizontal pieces of wood, iron, etc., fixed on opposite sides of a mast to support the trestletrees and crosstrees. Now rare.

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1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. iii. 16 At the top of the fore Mast and maine Mast are spliced cheeks, or thicke clamps of wood.

1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon iv. i. 118 A Tree to make Cheeks for the Main-mast.

1744 J. Philips Authentic Jrnl. Exped. Anson 173 We found the Starboard Cheek of the Main Mast defective and rotten.

1778 J. Cook Jrnl. 4 Mar. (1967) III. i. 300 In cuting into the mast head for this purpose,..both cheeks were found so rotton that there was no possibility of repairing them.

1838 C. Martelli Naval Officer's Guide (ed. 2) 79 Sometimes a double block is strapped into the bolt into the cheek of the main mast.

1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 172 The mast is built up of several pieces..spindles, side-trees..cheeks.

1912 D. Hannay Sea Trader 4 There can be few of the younger race of sailors who know what were the spindle, or upper tree, the two side trees with their heel pieces, the side fishes, cheeks..and fillings of a ‘made mast’.

1942 Pop. Mech. July 126 The top of the cheeks are slanted equal to the mast rake to allow the trees to set parallel with the waterline.

c. Either of the pieces of wood which connect and strengthen the joint between the bows of a ship and its beakhead or cutwater. Now chiefly historical.

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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) The knees also which fasten the Beak-head to the Bows of a Ship are called Cheeks.

1787 Ld. Nelson Let. 7 Jan. in Dispatches & Lett. (1844) I. 207 The Pegasus was immediately hauled to the wharf... The cheeks of her head have been taken off.

1851 J. Peake Rudim. Naval Archit. II. xxix. 166 Fig. 1 (caption) Lower cheek, a wooden knee, as described for the upper cheek, and bolted also to the bows of the ship.

1921 Mariner's Mirror 7 127/1 One of a pair of cleats nailed at each side of the bow, below the gunwale on the outside, and running forward to the stem. A sort of rudimentary ‘cheek’ serving only to give a little additional strength.

1955 C. N. Longridge Anat. Nelson's Ships v. 79 The long leg of the lower cheek runs parallel with the long leg of the upper cheek and merges in the carved finial of the figurehead.

d. Either of the parts of a pump which support the bolt of the handle; an ear (ear n.¹ 13). Cf. pump-cheeks n. at pump n.¹ Compounds 2. Now chiefly historical.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > ship's pumps > parts of ship's pumps

dale1611

sleeve1613

pump dalea1625

vale1685

cheek1727

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxii. 270 A Piece of Wood about 15 Foot high, with a Notch cut in the upper End, like the Cheeks of a Ship's Pump.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Cheville de potence de pompe, a..bolt which fastens the brake to the cheeks or ears of the pump.

1855 Technologisches Wörterbuch II. 395/1 The bilge-pump (a pump with brake and cheeks).

1987 P. Goodwin Constr. & Fitting Eng. Man of War v. 143/1 The pump handle was usually made from ash, and pivoted about a fulcrum formed by two cheeks or ‘ears’.

e. Either of the circular pieces which support the carrick-bitts and contribute to the stability of the windlass. Now chiefly historical.

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1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 106 Cheeks are also the circular pieces on the aft side of the carrick-bitts.

1901 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Encycl. 47 (caption) Cheeks of Carrick Bitts.

1997 D. J. Souza Persistence of Sail in Age of Steam (1998) iv. 98 The wooden carrick-bitts, cheeks, and standard-knees have deteriorated.

10. Mining. A wall of a vein. Now rare.

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1669 in J. H. Rieuwerts Gloss. Derbyshire Lead Mining Terms (1998) 42/2 Torre Cheeks.

1681 T. Houghton Rara Avis in Terris i. xxxviii. 37 We say, if any Vein or Rake go cross through another Rake or Vein, he that comes to the Pee first shall have it, and may work therein, so far as he can reach with a Pick, or Hack, having a helve three quarters of a yard long, so that he stand wholly within his own cheeks, when he works such a Pee.

1815 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. (ed. 2) xii. 290 The walls or cheeks of the vein are of two different kinds of stone.

1821 W. Forster Treat. Section Strata (ed. 2) 211 It has been observed before, that the two sides of a mineral, are called, by miners, the hanger and ledger, or the up cheek and down cheek.

1879 Trans. North of Eng. Inst. Mining Engineers 28 129 The ore..is very narrow nearly to the bottom of the section; it then widens considerably, and the ‘hanging cheek’ changes its character.

2001 T. D. Ford Geol. Matlock Mines 13 Near Low Mine, the cheeks of the vein are quartz-rock.

Phrases

†P1. In various curses or imprecations. Obsolete.See also maugre a person's cheeks at maugre prep. 2.

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c1330 Simonie (Auch.) (1991) l. 240 Þat so serueþ eny man, Godes curs in his cheke!

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) v. iv. sig. H.iiij Roister Doisters champion, I shrewe his best cheeke.

P2. cheek by cheek: side by side, alongside; in close or intimate proximity. Cf. cheek to cheek adv., adj., and n., cheek by jowl adv.

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the world > space > distance > nearness > near by [phrase] > close together

side by sidec1275

cheek by cheek?a1400

hand by hand?a1439

close1489

hand for hand1490

shoulder to shouldera1586

at (the) eye's end1628

knee to knee1760

corps à corps1890

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 223 So often away he wan, & vmwhile cheke bi cheke.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxxviii. sig. Tvi^v They..rode togyther cheke by cheke.

1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xxx. f. 101 Agathocles, sitting cheeke by cheeke with the king.

1791 Crit. Rev. Nov. 355 The pretty frontispiece, where they sit so amicably cheek by cheek together.

1890 Macmillan's Mag. July 236/2 The two pretty and inanimate child-faces lying cheek by cheek on the pillow.

1921 Publishers' Weekly 19 Mar. 992/2 Modern books could be shown cheek by cheek with the better (or best) old ones.

2014 R.Krznaric Empathy i. 33 We now need to absorb and internalize a different frame, which is the idea that empathy lies at the core of our being, cheek by cheek with self-interest.

P3. to turn the other cheek and variants: to refuse to retaliate; to allow the repetition or continuation of an insult or offence.The phrase alludes to Jesus's teaching, described in Matthew 5:39 and Luke 6:29.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (intransitive)]

to turn the other cheek1529

to go down like ninepins1791

to take (a beating, defeat, etc.) lying down1888

to take (something) sitting down1899

1525 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. v. f. vi^v Yf a man geve the a blowe on thy right cheke, tourne to hym the othre [Gk. ὅστις σε ῥαπίζει εἰς τὴν δεξιὰν σιαγόνα [σου], στρέψον αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην].]

1529 S. Fish tr. H. Bomelius Summe Holye Script. xxvi. sig. O. vii^v Thou wilt willingly tourne the other cheke [Du. den anderen wange toe sout houden] bere the blowe pacyently.

1622 T. Adams Eirenopolis 104 A man is stricken, will hee goe to law for this? no, rather let him turne the other cheeke.

1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 34 Those who laugh at the precept of turning the other cheek.

1720 T. Seaton Conduct of Servants xiii. 178 Our Religion teaches us..to turn the other Cheek to him that has already Smote one of them.

1796 Berkeley Hall; or, Pupil of Experience III. xviii. 195 I will turn t'other cheek to thy smitings.

1814 E. Everett Def. Christianity xi. 425 If a man obeyed all the other Christian laws..it would be no oppression to him that he was enjoined to turn the other cheek.

1850 O. W. Holmes Astræa 50 Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek, To take one blow, and turn the other cheek.

1930 J. A. Williamson Short Hist. Brit. Expansion (ed. 2) II. vi. v. 247 Nothing but the consciousness of a good cause enabled Lord Salisbury to turn the cheek to the smiter.

1969 Listener 28 Aug. 275/1 Nye [Bevan] was never one to turn the other cheek.

2005 Independent 14 Feb. 32/4 Should we have turned the other cheek?

†P4.

cheeks and ears n. Obsolete a kind of headdress.

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1605 London Prodigall sig. F2 Fran. Thou canst tell how to helpe mee to cheekes and eares... Civ. I, I, Kester; tis such as they weare a their heads.

1822 R. Nares Gloss. Cheeks and ears, a fantastic name for a kind of head-dress, of temporary fashion.

P5. to one's own cheek: to oneself, for one's private use or advantage. Now rare.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [phrase] > in his, its, etc., self > to or for oneself

to one's own cheek1823

1703 J. Bannatyne Let. from Presbyterian Minister 11 Here I give Cheek to my self, knowing that the very Reverend Commission will supply you with Faithful Ministers of their own Number.]

1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 24 When any one becomes a greedy guts and sups up all, he ‘takes it all to his own cheek’.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 123/2 Such a thing as a moor bird..which can be eat up to a man's own cheek.

1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles II. ix. 101 If I spent my earnings.., or let Tim keep his to his own cheek, where should we be?

1944 F. O'Connor Crab Apple Jelly 5 They said she had three hundred pounds to her own cheek the day she set foot in the school.

1956 Times 14 Feb. 9/4 That young lady..has had thirty of the dratted things [sc. Valentine cards] all to her own cheek.

P6. tongue in cheek: see tongue-in-cheek adj. and adv.

Compounds

C1. Objective with participles, as cheek distending, cheek reddening, cheek burning, etc., adjs.

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1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 162 The cheek-distending oath.

1899 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea I. 276 A cheek-rasping breeze that makes you sit down under the bulwarks and gasp for breath.

1913 Outing Jan. 456/1 The cold season offers greater opportunities for healthy cheek-reddening outdoor fun.

1979 E. Mace Brother Enemy vii. 54 It was a dreadful, cheek-withering whiff that made Andreas draw back in a hurry.

2000 Times 30 Sept. 8/2 I certainly knew the cheek-burning humiliation of being caned in front of my classmates.

C2.

cheek ball n. the rounded part of the cheek.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [noun] > rounded part of

cheek ball1585

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 28/1 Gena, mala, the cheeke ball.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 649 The powder of vnwashed wooll..doth very effectually purge the eye-lides or cheeke-bals.

1844 Ayrshire Wreath 156 I can see [his eyes]..squeezed from their sockets, and hanging like jellies on his cheek balls.

1994 M. S. Willis Mountains of Amer. 61 His father's face was squeezed up like a baby's, tiny eyes, tiny mouth, little cheek balls.

cheek-band n. (a) either of the side straps of a horse's bridle, connecting the headpiece with the bit; = sense 7a; (b) a band of contrasting colour on the cheek of an animal.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of

headstallc1330

trench1480

stalk1497

musrol1551

head-strain?1561

water-chain?1561

throat band1585

cavesson1598

mullen1598

nose bit?a1600

front-stall1601

ampyx1607

chain1607

fillet1607

cheek-band1611

cheekpiece1611

noseband1611

throat thong1611

headpiece1678

throatlatch1693

headband1704

trenchefil1730

bridoon1744

banquet1753

head1756

cheek1795

throat strap1803

frontlet1805

throat-lash1805

cheekstrap1834

brow-band1844

nosepiece1865

shank1879

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Porte-mors The cheeke-peece, or cheeke-band, of a Bridle.

1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. vii. 241 There is an ornament like a flower de luce..in the angle between the nose-band and the cheek-band.

1891 G. E. Shelley in P. L. Sclater & G. E. Shelley Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. XIX. 88 Cheek-band bordering the red of throat jet-black.

1902 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 16 273 The usual broad white cheek-band occupies the whole area below the eyes, from the nose to the side of the neck.

1973 S. Ali & S. D. Ripley Handbk. Birds India & Pakistan IX. 204 Young similar to adult but crown paler, cheek-band cream instead of white.

2004 K. Forsyth Tower of Ravens (2005) 38 He dragged on the cheek-band and pushed at the horse's flank until at last she summoned the energy to stand.

† cheek blade n. Obsolete either side of the jawbone.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > zygomatic arch > cheekbones

cheek lapa1382

cheek bonea1425

cheek blade1535

seat of the skull1552

yoke bone1615

gumble1688

jugal1854

malar1866

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit vi. 3 Take him by the cheke blade [Ger. flosfedern, L. branchia], and drawe him to the.

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 396 I'll give you a Fluet on the Cheek blade, 'till the Fire flee from your Een Holes.

1808 Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Cheek-blade, the cheek-bone.

cheek-block n. Nautical (now archaic) a block (block n. 2a) one side of which is formed by the surface to which it is fastened; = half block n. (cf. sense 9a).

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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 155 Cheek-blocks, or half-blocks, are made of elm plank.

1883 E. H. Taunt Young Sailor's Assistant 150 What is a cheek block? A block having but one cheek. It is bolted to a mast or gaff, and they form the other cheek.

1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea i. 5 Pullings..said, ‘Well, and so you've done it again, sir’, before going on to the foretopmost cheekblocks.

cheek bristles n. plural the tactile whiskers on the snout of a mammal; the facial hair or bristles of a man.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous parts of > whiskers

camps?a1500

smelling-organ1596

mustachios1605

granons1607

smeller1665

cheek bristles1848

1848 G. R. Waterhouse Nat. Hist. Mammalia II. 216 They [sc. viscachas] differ, moreover, from the specimens in which the cheek bristles are wanting.

1900 A. Hill Introd. Sci. 30 When darkness approaches..its cheek-bristles..save it from contact with passive objects.

2010 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 28 Feb. b1 He hoped to win the best overall award for the most striking cheek bristles.

cheek-down n. soft facial hair, esp. the first beard growth of an adolescent boy.

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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > down > of face

pappus1857

cheek-down1887

1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xi. 201 Upon their faces the cheek-down blossomed fair.

1997 W. G. Andrews et al. Ottoman Lyric Poetry 107 A person with soft, dark cheek-down..is considered an appropriate love-object.

cheek feather n. a short feather used in making artificial flies for fly-fishing, esp. to add brilliance or colour.

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1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling xiii. 400 Cheek feathers—that is short feathers.

1951 L. Wulff New Handbk. Freshwater Fishing iv. 63 The cheek feathers may have come from Brooklyn instead of India but if it looks ‘buggy’..the fish will be interested.

2008 D. Talleur Trout Flies 21st Cent. (Tying notes) vi. 130/1 Place a small droplet of Elmer's Glue or something similar on the back of the eye, which can be seen through the cheek feather.

cheek flap n. a cheek or part of a cheek detached or severed from the face, esp. for the purpose of reconstructive or cosmetic surgery.

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1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xvi. 335 The blade..slivering downward, left The cheek-flap dangling.

1878 Med. Press & Circular 23 Jan. 64/2 Dieffenbach's method of sliding a cheek-flap into the gap left by the previous excision, appeared to me the simplest and best.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Plastic Surg. 21 374 Cheek flap brought across towards the nose to re-form lower lid.

1996 C. H. Rassekh in B. J. Bailey et al. Atlas Head & Neck Surg. xxiii. 54/2 The mucosal flap is rotated and advanced to allow it to be sutured to the superior edge of the cheek flap.

cheek implant n. (in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery) an implant of moulded silicone and plastic placed on or below the cheekbone to restore or enhance the appearance of the cheek.

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1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 30 Nov. 8/2 The McLachlen girl required cheek implants and 50 stitches as a result of the attack by the dog.

1998 K. Allman Hot Shot 60 Mary Lasater sucked in the skin below her cheek implants.

2005 J. Austen TV-a-go-go ix. 242 Jessica (née Michael), a pre-op transsexual, got breast and cheek implants, eyebrow bone shaving, and a lowered hairline to look like Jennifer Lopez.

cheek knee n. = sense 9c.

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1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. ii. 210 The cheek-knees should shew the same depth as the upper rail.

1884 S. B. Luce Text-bk. Seamanship (rev. ed.) 490 A rope..could be passed around the bowsprit and through a suitable hole cut through the stem head above the cheek knees.

1960 P. J. Grillo What is Design? 88 Members chosen from the natural curves and forks of an oak tree suitable for shipbuilding.—1. Cheek knee.

† cheek lap n. Obsolete = sense 1a; cf. cheek bone n. 1.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > zygomatic arch > cheekbones

cheek lapa1382

cheek bonea1425

cheek blade1535

seat of the skull1552

yoke bone1615

gumble1688

jugal1854

malar1866

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) Judges xv. 15 A fowndyn cheekebon, þat is þe cheklappe [L. mandibulam] of an asse.

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 116 (MED) Anotamie of..nose, chekelappis, mouþ.

a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Lev. xi. 29 A cokedril..hauynge the nether cheke lap vnmeuable, and meuynge the ouere.

cheek patch n. a patch of contrasting colour on the cheek of an animal, esp. a bird.

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1848 Agric. Gaz. 6 May 305/3 The others [sc. fowl] are pure white, in shape and carriage exactly like the black Spanish, only wanting the white cheek-patch.

1891 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1890 42 16 Face [of the bat Pteropus vulgaris] uniformly covered with short, brown hair without distinct cheek-patch.

1929 Illus. London News 9 Nov. 804/1 The tree-sparrow is..recognisable at sight by the black cheek-patch set upon a ground-work of white.

2014 J. M. Black et al. Barnacle Goose i. 27 As is the case with Canada Geese, the white cheek-patch is used for signalling information to mates, kin and flock members.

cheek pouch n. a pouch-like enlargement of the cheek, esp. in certain rodents and monkeys, used for storing or carrying food.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > cheek-pouch

cheek pouch1653

pouch1803

the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > monkey > parts of

cheek pouch1653

palm1863

poma1889

1653 Ghost or Woman wears the Breeches 9 He has borrow'd sure a Cheek-pouch of some Monkey, and stuft it full with Bonds and interest money.

1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 80 It is probable that we shall have to separate from the Squirrels certain species which have cheek pouches like the Hamsters.

1986 R. Bakker Dinosaur Heresies (1988) viii. 171 Horned dinosaurs had cheek pouches and could employ tongue-cheek coordination to keep chopping the bolus into ever finer slices.

2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xix. 481 The cercopithecines have cheek pouches (or buccal sacs) in which they store food.

cheek-pouched adj. that possesses cheek pouches.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [adjective] > of body or parts of

foxtailed1774

silky1781

red-handed1819

cheek-pouched1844

cebocephalic1881

pomatic1889

1844 S. Lee Elements Nat. Hist. 45 Nycteris. Cheek-pouched Bats.

1907 V. A. Julius in A. Wright Twentieth Cent. Impressions of Ceylon (1999) 157/3 There are four kinds of simians in Ceylon, viz., the Rilawa, a macaque or cheek-pouched monkey, and three Wanduras, or Langurs.

2010 D. Whittaker in R. Hubrecht & J. Kirkwood UFAW Handbk. Care & Managem. Lab. Animals (ed. 8) ii. xxiv. 348/1 Hamsters as a group can be described as stout-bodied, stubby-tailed, broad-headed, cheek-pouched, burrowing and nest building rodents.

cheek rose n. (in plural) the rosy central parts of the cheeks.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iv. 16 Haile Virgin..as those cheeke-Roses Proclaime you are no lesse.

1919 Med. Summary Sept. 153/1 The reduction of auto-intoxication..is evident in improved color, the cheek roses being distinct.

2004 U. Plahter et al. Painted Altar Frontals Norway II. ii. iii. 126/1 Cheek roses, eye sockets and shadows along the nose ridge..are painted yellowish-red.

cheekstrap n. either of the side straps of a horse's bridle, connecting the headpiece with the bit; = sense 7a.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of

headstallc1330

trench1480

stalk1497

musrol1551

head-strain?1561

water-chain?1561

throat band1585

cavesson1598

mullen1598

nose bit?a1600

front-stall1601

ampyx1607

chain1607

fillet1607

cheek-band1611

cheekpiece1611

noseband1611

throat thong1611

headpiece1678

throatlatch1693

headband1704

trenchefil1730

bridoon1744

banquet1753

head1756

cheek1795

throat strap1803

frontlet1805

throat-lash1805

cheekstrap1834

brow-band1844

nosepiece1865

shank1879

1834 D. Walker Brit. Manly Exercises 103 (caption) The headstall with the cheekstraps.

1936 R. F. Adams Cowboy Lingo ix. 97 To mount a horse in this manner the cowboy grasped the cheek strap of the bridle just above the bits.

1994 C. McCarthy Crossing 274 He dropped back and took hold of the bridle cheekstrap and walked beside the horse and talked to it.

cheek-varnish n. now historical a cosmetic used to colour the cheeks; rouge.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > paints or colours > reddening

reda1398

cloth of Levant1497

red leather1545

safflower1583

cheek-varnish1598

vermilion1600

rubric1650

rud1651

Spanish wool1678

French reda1680

saffranon1731

French rouge?1745

rouge1746

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Purpurino..a liuely redde colour women vse for painting, called cheeke-varnish.

1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) xv. 266 The baudy trimming of which cheeke-varnish proves but a loathsome nastinesse.

1811 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kempfer Hist. Japan in J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. VII. 711 The best [shells] are brought from the Riuku islands, and are the chief ingredient of their white cheek varnish.

2002 R. Flannagan John Milton 105 Milton associates formal poetic epithets, or at least the Greek ones, with cheek-varnish.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cheek
释义	cheekn. Brit. /tʃiːk/, U.S. /tʃik/ Forms: Old English ceac- (in compounds), Old English ceace, Old English cece (rare), Old English ceica (Northumbrian, dative), Old English ceke (Mercian), Old English ceoc- (in compounds), Old English ceoce, early Middle English cheoke, Middle English cheake, Middle English cheche, Middle English check, Middle English scheke, Middle English schyk, Middle English–1500s chek, Middle English–1500s chyke, Middle English–1600s cheeke, Middle English–1600s cheke, Middle English–1600s chieke, 1500s chieck, 1500s chieque, 1500s chikis (plural), 1500s–1600s cheeck, 1500s– cheek, 2000s– chack (English regional (Cornwall)); also Scottish pre-1700 cheik, pre-1700 cheike, pre-1700 cheyke, pre-1700 chyke, pre-1700 chykkis (plural), pre-1700 schek, 2000s– chick (north-eastern); Irish English (northern) 1900s– chick; N.E.D. (1889) also records a form Middle English chik(e. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate (with variation in stem class and root vowel) with Old Frisian sziāke , tziāke (West Frisian (Schiermonnikoog) tjaik ), Middle Dutch cāke , caek (Dutch kaak ), Middle Low German kāke , kēke , all in sense ‘jaw, jawbone, cheek’, Old Icelandic kók gullet, throat, Norwegian kjake jaw, jowl, (Nynorsk) kok throat, Old Swedish kæke jaw (Swedish käke ), Swedish regional kjåk jaw, Old Danish kæghe jaw (Danish kaje , Danish regional kæg ); further etymology unknown. Compare choke n.¹Further etymology. No secure cognates have been identified outside Germanic. The Germanic cognates apparently show the reflex of several different stem vowels that are not easily reconcilable. The vocalism and root structure (two identical plosives) of the pre-Germanic base have been taken to suggest an origin in a non-Indo-European substrate language, although this is not universally accepted. Derivation from a Germanic n -stem noun from the same base as chew v. has alternatively been suggested, but this presents phonological problems. Form history. In English at least two different stem vowels are represented. Old English (West Saxon) cēace is traditionally assumed to show a long diphthong, the reflex of early Old English ǣ ( < West Germanic ā ), before which the initial velar consonant was regularly palatalized, the palatal in turn causing diphthongization of the following vowel to ēa ; Anglian cēce , the antecedent of modern standard English cheek, can be interpreted as showing the direct equivalent of this (with regular Anglian ē < ǣ ). The less frequent West Saxon form cēoce apparently reflects a different stem vowel, the reflex of the same Germanic diphthong (eu ) that also appears in Old Frisian sziāke . However, Anglian cēce could also be explained as showing the reflex of the same diphthong as cēoce (with Anglian smoothing), while alternative phonological explanations have also been suggested for West Saxon cēace , e.g. as the reflex of Germanic au , or even as showing a short, rather than long, stem vowel. For further possible reflexes of Old English cēoce , cēace in Middle English see choke n.¹ and discussion at that entry. Semantic development. Compare chin n.¹ which shows a similar range of meanings in Germanic. With sense 3 (relating to impudence) compare similar semantic developments at face n. 3, forehead n. 2, front n. 4; perhaps similarly arising from the concept of command of facial expression and apparent lack of shame. Compare also jowl n.¹ 2, jaw n.¹ 6. I. Senses relating to the part of the body. †1. a. The jaw; a jawbone, esp. the mandible. Cf. cheek bone n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [noun] wangc975 leerc1000 cheekOE haffet1513 jowl1668 chap1709 gena1826 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > jawbones > upper cheekOE maxilla?a1425 superior maxilla1697 maxillary1826 upper1878 OE tr. Bili St. Machutus 25 Þa se halga wer mid his hand wæs handligende þa stowa þæs cildes welera, he natoþoshwon ontynan ne mihte þara toþa gebind; he sona..gebletsade þæt gefeg þara cecana. OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 97 Mandibula, ceacban, uel ceacan, uel cinban. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 57 Þe twa cheken beoð twa grind stanes þe tunge is þe cleppe. a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1528 (MED) Þin heued ffor-wounded..Cheken and eren al fforbete wiþ boffettes. c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer Monk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 40 And hadde no wepne but an Asses cheke. a1500 (?c1414) Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms 11 (MED) Lord..streyne here chekys [L. maxillas] fro woordys ydell, That kan noȝt holdyn here tungys stylle. b. Frequently in plural. The cavity of the mouth; the palate; the fauces. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [noun] > fauces cheekeOE fauces?1541 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. iv. 48 Smire þone sweoran mid: þæt biþ strang sealf & god..wiþ þara ceacna geswelle oððe asmorunge. OE Arundel Psalter xxi. 16 Lingua mea adhesit faucibus meis : tunge min toclyfode gomum uel ceacan minum. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 73 Cleued be mi tunge to mine cheken gif ich forgete þe ierusalem. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 248 (MED) Þe dyaþ his nimþ sodaynliche, ase me nimþ þane viss by þe cheake, þet is to zigge, þe morsel ine þe mouþe. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxxi. 12 Ne opene thou out thi cheeke rathere. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 27 (MED) Faux, a chyke & a chykebon. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 626 Cheke, faux. c. figurative. The outer part of an arm or inlet of the sea. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 49 (MED) The chekes and begynnenges [L. fauces originales] of those armes of the see. 1598 W. Phillip tr. Descr. Voy. E. Indies 32 We sayled into the cheeke with our shippe. 2. a. In humans or animals: either of the outer sides of the face, between the eye and the jaw. Also: either of the fleshy inside walls of the mouth.In early use probably with wider reference to the whole of the lower face and chin. ΚΠ eOE Laws of Ælfred (Corpus Cambr. 173) l. 80 Gif monnes ceacan [altered from eacan; L. (Quadripartitus) genas, siue os maxillare] mon forslihð, þæt hie beoð forode, gebete mid xv scillingum. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. v. 39 Si quis te percusserit in dextera maxilla tua præbe illi et altera[m] : gif hua ðec slaes in suiðra ceica ðin [OE Rushw. Gospels on ðæt swiðran wonge uel ceke þin; OE West Saxon Gospels: Corpus Cambr. on þin swyþre wenge] sel uel gef him & ðy oðera. OE Brussels Gloss. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 290 Male, ceocan. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 84 Me tobeot his cheken. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 615 Ys chyke þat swerd þo cam so neȝ [orig. draft His cheche þat swerd cam ful neyȝ]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 24533 I kest him þan bath frunt and chek [Fairf. cheke], Muth and nese, and eien eke. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. cvi^v When thou seeth thy hauke vppon his mouth and his chekis blobbed. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit vi. A Moses was an hundreth and twentye yeare olde whan he dyed: his eyes were not dymme, and his chekes were not fallen. 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 264 Throw^t baith the cheikis. a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1615) sig. B3 When others kisse with lip, you giue the cheeke. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 602 Care Sat on his faded cheek . View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 317. ¶45 Mr. Nisby dined with me. First Course Marrow-bones, Second, Ox Cheek. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. liv. 196 I signified my contempt of him, by thrusting my tongue in my cheek. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 185 The tears stole silent down her cheeks. 1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 595 The Cheeks (Genæ) form the lateral walls of the mouth... Externally they have no precise limits. 1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Buffalo Express 1 Jan. 2/6 Conrad's color came back to his cheeks. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 67 Frank rude health glowed in her face, on her fat red cheeks and in her unabashed blue eyes. 1962 I. Asimov Chemicals of Life (ed. 2) iv. 57 There are salivary glands..in the cheeks and under the tongue. 2007 R. Millward Apples ix. 106 She gave me a big kiss on the cheek leaving two wet cherry lips. b. figurative. Something regarded as comparable to a human cheek in shape or colouring.Extended senses alluding to the position of the cheeks on either side of the face are treated in branch II. ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 55 The cloudie cheekes of heauen. View more context for this quotation 1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xxxvi. 470 To colour the cheeks of our Apples, and enlarge the Sphære of our Cabbages. 1770 J. Armstrong Misc. I. 152 Rude hurricanes, Discharged from the wind-swoln cheeks of heaven, Buoy up the swilling skirts of Araby's Inhospitable wilds. 1813 Ld. Byron Giaour (new ed.) 2 Ocean's cheek Reflects the tints of many a peak. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. i. 27 Every flower of fairest cheek. 1914 Overland Monthly Aug. 206 Now fades the flush From Heaven's cheeks and hers. 1976 N. Maclean River runs through It 69 She has LO tattooed on one cheek of her ass and VE on the other. 2012 K. K. Myers Vanishing Game ix. 80 A white jet stream left a swelling gash across the cheek of the sky. c. Either of the buttocks. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun] flitcha700 arse-endseOE culec1220 buttockc1300 tail1303 toutec1305 nagea1325 fundamentc1325 tail-end1377 brawna1382 buma1387 bewschers?a1400 crouponc1400 rumplec1430 lendc1440 nachec1440 luddocka1475 rearwarda1475 croupc1475 rumpc1475 dock1508 hurdies1535 bunc1538 sitting place1545 bottom?c1550 prat1567 nates1581 backside1593 crupper1594 posteriorums1596 catastrophe1600 podex1601 posterior1605 seat1607 poop1611 stern1631 cheek1639 breeka1642 doup1653 bumkin1658 bumfiddle1661 assa1672 butt1675 quarter1678 foundation1681 toby1681 bung1691 rear1716 fud1722 moon1756 derrière1774 rass1790 stern-post1810 sit-down1812 hinderland1817 hinderling1817 nancy1819 ultimatum1823 behinda1830 duff?1837 botty1842 rear end1851 latter end1852 hinder?1857 sit1862 sit-me-down1866 stern-works1879 tuchus1886 jacksy-pardy1891 sit-upon1910 can1913 truck-end1913 sitzfleisch1916 B.T.M.1919 fanny1919 bot1922 heinie1922 beam1929 yas yas1929 keister1931 batty1935 bim1935 arse-end1937 twat1937 okole1938 bahookie1939 bohunkus1941 quoit1941 patoot1942 rusty-dusty1942 dinger1943 jacksie1943 zatch1950 ding1957 booty1959 patootie1959 buns1960 wazoo1961 tush1962 1639 Deloney's Gentile Craft: 2nd Pt. (rev. ed.) ii. ii. sig. Ciij Spied both his great cheekes full of small blisters. 1721 ‘I. Bickerstaff’ Mod. Poetasters 16 Goose. Her lower Cheeks are..white, plump and beautiful. ?1790 Maid of Mill 27 Dick gave her such a hearty smack, that made her cheeks ring like bell metal. 1871 E. Thomas Chron. Pathán Kings of Delhi 164 ‘Whatever was found deficient’ in the articles purchased was made up by ‘flesh equal to the deficiency’, cut from the seller's ‘two cheeks’ [buttocks]. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vi. [Hades] 89 Shift stuck between the cheeks behind. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 369 The tail-lights are cloacal, the rear is split like the cheeks of a drum-majorette. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 108 At every opportunity, he'd take a running swat between my cheeks, driving his fingers as far up my ass as my checked pants would allow. d. Palaeontology. In trilobites: a part of the cephalon located lateral and anterior to the glabella (on each side).In many trilobite species, the cheek is divided by the facial suture into an inner portion next to the glabella (fixed cheek) and an outer portion (free cheek). ΚΠ 1824 Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 327 Each of the lateral lobes or cheeks..is also provided with a double row of tubercles nearly equal in size to each other, and placed below the eye parallel to the external border. 1884 H. Woodward Monogr. Brit. Carboniferous Trilobites 40 The eyes are very small, placed far back on the cheeks and near the basal lobes; the granulations on the head and cheeks are coarse and closely placed. 1946 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 8) 356 The eye is entirely on the free cheek, but rests on a buttress or lobe in the adjacent part of the fixed cheek (the palpebral lobe). 2015 D. R. Prothero Story Life in 25 Fossils 38 The cheek regions broke off from the central part of the cephalon..during molting, so most trilobite fossils consist of just the center of the cephalon. 3. colloquial. a. Presumptuous or disrespectful behaviour or attitude; impudence, effrontery, audacity; (also) an instance of this. Frequently in to have the cheek (to do something). Cf. face n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] hardiessec1300 boldness1377 malapertness?a1439 over-boldnessc1450 insolencya1513 protervitya1527 impudency1529 sauce malapert1529 petulancy1537 procacitya1538 audacity1545 sauceliness1552 forehead1564 hardihead1579 hardihood1594 outfacing1598 audaciousness1599 impudentness1599 petulancea1600 impertinency1609 impertinence1612 impudencea1616 procacya1620 affrontedness1640 brow1642 front1653 insolence1668 affrontery1679 assurance1699 effrontery1715 affrontiveness1721 swagger1725 imperence1765 cheek1823 sassiness1834 cheekiness1838 pawk1855 gall1882 chutzpah1886 face1890 mouth1891 crust1900 rind1901 smarting1902 hide1916 brass neck1937 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > be or become impudent [verb (intransitive)] > be impudent enough to to have the face (to do something)?1562 to have the conscience1595 to have the cheek (to do something)1823 to have a nerve1887 1823 ‘B. Truck’ Man-of-war's-man in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 271/2 But the rogue had such an invincible cheek, and so smooth and oily a tongue. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House liv. 517 On account of his having so much cheek. 1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. II. x. 229 He can't have the cheek to ask for more. 1885 Standard 13 May 2/7 It showed a considerable amount of ‘cheek’ on the part of the hon. Baronet that he should come forward once more with his project. 1922 W. S. Maugham On Chinese Screen xiii. 59 I almost thought the blighters would have the confounded cheek to shoot me. 1964 Listener 16 Apr. 624/2 ‘Television dramatists’..have the cheek to use television techniques in stage plays. 1987 Waterways World Apr. 38/1 It seeming a bit of a cheek to stop this busy road for four idle holidaymakers. 2006 Independent 28 Feb. 38/4 And how can he have the fathomless cheek to return to public life after being ruined. b. Impudent, insolent, or disrespectful speech. Chiefly in to give cheek. Cf. jaw n.¹ 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > speech sauce malapert1529 petulancea1652 jaw1748 snash1786 slack-jaw1797 slang1805 gob1807 lip1821 cheek1825 slack1825 sass1841 back-talk1858 back sass1883 mouth1891 slack lip1899 back-chat1901 chin1902 slop1952 the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > be or become impudent [verb (intransitive)] > use impudent language to have drunk of sauce's cup?1499 to have eaten sauce?1499 snash1802 to give cheek1825 sass1866 to talk back1869 back-chat1927 back-talk1934 1825 ‘B. Truck’ Man-of-war's-man in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 704/1 Come, come, Mahoney, we wants none of your cheek. 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxii. 158 The man, who was a sulky, saucy sort of chap, and no seaman, I've a notion, gives cheek. 1884 G. Moore Mummer's Wife (1887) 133 If he gives me any of his cheek I'll knock him down. 1901 E. L. Voynich Jack Raymond ii. 39 Now, then, none of your cheek! 1965 N. Hilliard Power of Joy 133 They..stuffed grass down the necks of girls who gave cheek. 2011 S. Webb Love & Other Drama Ramas (2014) ii. 21 I spent nearly every lunchtime doing lines in detention for giving cheek in class. II. Either of two sides, parts, etc., and related senses. 4. gen. Either of two corresponding sides of an object. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > the side of anything sideeOE cheeka1400 coasta1400 wing?1482 flank1624 siding1627 broadside1632 a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 469 (MED) Þe chekes of þe chayr wer..Couered myd a riche cloþe. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. l. 180 (MED) The heer do barbe away from eyther cheeke Of euery roote. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions Pref. 8 So joynyng in confederacie, [they]..framed vp cotages, one by anothers chieque, etc. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 147 Some sprinkling scattering Drops..moistned the Cheeks of the craggy Rocks. 1789 W. Gilpin Observ. Picturesque Beauty Scotl. I. xiii. 125 The river makes a noble rush..between the two cheeks of the rock, which support the bridge. 1834 Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 653 The strata are deposited in concentric arches upon a diameter which forms the right cheek of the fissure. 1950 R. B. Inverarity Art Northwest Coast Indians 178 One side of the box is carved with a beaver's head with two smaller heads projecting from its cheeks. 5. Either of the side posts or uprights of a door, gate, etc.; cf. door-cheek n., gate-cheek n. at gate n.¹ Compounds 2. Also: either of the side pieces of a window frame. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > framing > part of framing jamb1428 scuncheon1435 cheek1485 scunch1611 ancon1706 shutting stile1909 backband1940 1485–6 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 258 For a cheke to þe same wyndowe iiijd. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 229 Set evinly Betuix the chekys [1489 Adv. chekis] of the ȝet. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 106 Meete for the cheekes and postes of Gates. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. vi. 571 The sils, lintels, & cheeks of his dores. 1753 A. Henderson Hist. Rebellion (ed. 5) iii. 107 One Bullet..flew to the Distance of about fifty Yards, upon the Cheek of a Shop Door which it carried away. 1855 Death J. Robbins 20 One man stood by the cheek of the door and balanced himself, and then tried to fire in that position. 1910 Fortn. Rev. Sept. 545 The robin that perched on the cheek of the gate-post. 1961 Thatcher's Craft (new ed.) iv. 153 The brow-course is started next to the window..which when dressed back into a cheek..is much neater in appearance. 1988 Architects' Jrnl. 20 Jan. 59/1 The sides, or cheeks, of dormers should be designed as walls. 6. a. Either of a pair of side pieces in a machine, structure, or manufactured object. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > other parts neck?a1425 buttc1425 cheek1487 wing1577 face1601 ear1678 wood1683 strig1703 thumb-piece1760 jaws1789 crown1796 lug1833 sprig1835 point angle1869 bulb1885 nosepiece1983 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun] > of specific shape cheek1487 ward1599 screw worm1648 ball1675 swan-neck1686 cone1832 goose-neck1843 spider1860 concave1874 1487 Cely Papers in Eng. Stud. (1961) 42 150 A hamber and for pyns and chekys for the gonnys. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iii. f.118^v Take a presse made with strong cheekes. 1668 in R. Elton Compl. Body Art Mil. (new ed.) Suppl. 248 For the Traverses..that joyn these Planks together, the foremost..must enter one half of a Diameter in length into either of the Cheeks or Planks. 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. x. 187 When the Wheel is used, its Edge stands athwart the Cheeks of the Lathe. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Trunnions of a Peece of Ordnance, are those Nobs or Bunches of the Guns Metal which bear her up upon the Cheeks of the Carriages. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 329 Then with the Bar he pulls the Spindle hard down upon the Plattin, and Sets the edges of a Paper-board between the Bar and the further Cheek of the Press. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) The cheeks of a mortar, or the brackets, in artillery..are fixed to the bed by four bolts. 1830 E. S. N. Campbell Dict. Mil. Sci. 38 Cheeks of an embrazure, the interior Faces or Sides of an Embrazure. 1838 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 25 282 Although the cheeks of the vice have met upon a hard object, as a piece of iron, the screw can be turned considerably farther. 1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. ii. 50 A thick piece of pine or mahogany is glued firmly on the front and back..named the sound-board cheeks. 1918 Foundry Jan. 14/1 The pattern and gate are then set and the cheek of the flask placed and rammed. 1944 E. E. Haycraft in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder v. 199/1 These dowels are made to act as draw-bore pins by staggering the holes through the cheeks of the mortise with that through the tenon. 1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches (1963) 54 Cycloidal cheeks, curved plates each side of the suspension of a pendulum to make it swing in a cycloid instead of an arc. 2013 J. Rose Compl. Pract. Machinist vi. 140 It is the best plan to let the crosshead cheeks rest upon the markingoff table or plate. b. Either of the sides of a grate or fireplace. Now chiefly historical.See also fire cheek n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a, ingle-cheek n. ΚΠ 1721 True Inventory Sir John Fellowes 21 A Grate with Cheeks, and Iron Back. 1740 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (ed. 3) Cheeks, also the flat iron plates that are put into grates to bound the fire, whereby it may be increased or diminished at pleasure. 1812 Monthly Mag. 1 Dec. 428/2 [Fit] the fire-grate, viz. the back and cheeks of the fire-grate, to the back and cheeks of the outer grate. 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic iii. iii. 567 The sides or ‘cheeks’ of the grate. 1933 D. A. Mackenzie Stroopie Well 3 When these were thoroughly fired, they were placed on the ‘cheeks’ of the fire-place. 1983 D. J. Eveleigh Firegrates & Kitchen Ranges 15/1 The width of the fire [in a range] could be adjusted by movable sides, known as cheeks, which were wound in and out by a rack and pinion. 2009 Victorian Nov. 28/1 The most likely things to have survived are cast iron grates with tiled cheeks, floor tiles in the hallway, [etc.]. 7. a. Either of the side straps or pieces of a horse's bridle, connecting the headpiece with the bit. Cf. cheekpiece n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of headstallc1330 trench1480 stalk1497 musrol1551 head-strain?1561 water-chain?1561 throat band1585 cavesson1598 mullen1598 nose bit?a1600 front-stall1601 ampyx1607 chain1607 fillet1607 cheek-band1611 cheekpiece1611 noseband1611 throat thong1611 headpiece1678 throatlatch1693 headband1704 trenchefil1730 bridoon1744 banquet1753 head1756 cheek1795 throat strap1803 frontlet1805 throat-lash1805 cheekstrap1834 brow-band1844 nosepiece1865 shank1879 ?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding iii. xxiv. sig. E.iii Lette the chekes of your bridle be right out, and not compassed. 1591 R. Turnbull Expos. Epist. St. Iames f. 146 Of horses, who are gouerned by the bitte and cheeke of the bridle. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. vii. v. 1084 The Mule which the Prete rideth on, hath a very faire ornament aboue her bridle, which hath in the cheekes of the bridle, two Cordons of Silke with goodly Tassels. 1728 Exercise for Horse, Dragoons, & Foot Forces (Great Brit. Army) 14 Facing to the left about on the Right Heel, take hold of the Left Cheek of the Bridle with the Right Hand. 1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 167 The bitt is buckled in the top loop to the cheek of the bridle. 1836 Spirit of Times 9 July 162/2 An awkward looking striker of old Thompson's holding her by the cheek of the bridle. 1963 E. H. Edwards Saddlery iii. 24 The cheeks, to which the bit is secured and which buckle on to the points of the head. 1992 F. McWhorter & J. R. Erickson Horse Fixin’ iii. 55 If one bites me too hard or too often, I take him by the cheek of the bridle and kick him in the belly. b. Either of the vertical bars of a horse's bit, attached to either side of the bit-mouth. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit > parts of cannon?1561 cheek?1561 port?1561 player1566 upset mouth1566 rowel1590 mouth1607 upset1607 liberty1667 mouthpiece1728 top-roll1728 cheekpiece1864 branch1884 bit-maker1902 ?1561 T. Blundeville Newe Bk. Arte of Ryding i. x. sig. C.ii The diuerse fashyons of byttes together with the membres therof, as the chekes, kurbles, portes, trenches, and suche like. 1593 G. Markham Disc. Horsmanshippe ii. sig. F But if he be..gentle mouthed, then shall the cheeke of your Bytte be made but vppon one degree. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 68 The cheeke..I take to be but from the neathermoste part of the eye of the byt downeward, to the vtmost length of the byt. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Bit The several Parts..of a Snaffle or Curb-Bit, are, the Mouth-Piece, the Cheeks and Eyes, [etc.]. 1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 167 The Bitt is an iron instrument placed in a horse's mouth..they are of different forms, some are made to be sharper in the mouth, and for a stronger purchase than others, and are called the straight cheek, the duke, and portmouth bitt. ?1847 T. Brown Man. Mod. Farriery i. 376 Some horses are so cunning as to get the cheek of the bit into their mouth. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 232/2 A small strap..passing from cheek of the bit through a ring in the centre of the curb chain to the other cheek. 1907 Jrnl. Agric. (W. Austral. Dept. Agric.) Oct. 791 Snaffles with cheeks and curb-bits should be avoided when a horse is sent by rail. 1988 J. Loriston-Clarke in S. McBane Horse & Bit xiii. 129/1 The oblique lines of coupling reins can cause swivelling cheeks to press uncomfortably on the muzzles of horses in pair harness. †8. a. Either of the metal side-pieces of a pike (pike n.⁴ 1) which secure the head to the staff or handle. Also in later use: either of similar side-pieces of a hammer, pick, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > pike > [noun] > head > side-piece of cheek1598 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 36 A good Pike..of seuenteen or eighteen foote long at the least, well and strongly headed, with the cheekes three foote long. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. iii. 25 During the parley..they stood..every one trayling his Pike, and holding the cheeke thereof in his hand, ready to push. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 99 Cheeks, extensions of the sides of the eye of a hammer or pick. b. The action or position of cheeking a pike: see cheek v. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > weapon-training > manual exercise > position of weapon > positions of pike cheek1635 comport1635 1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline ii. 9 From Comport, Cheeke, or Treile, the Pikeman may..charge either to the Front, Reere, or both Flanks. 9. Nautical. a. Either of the outer pieces of a block (block n. 2a) which enclose a sheave or pulley. Also occasionally: the outer piece of a half-block (half block n.); (also) the surface to which a half-block is fastened. ΚΠ a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) Snatch block is a greate Block with the Sheever in it and a Notch cutt through one of the Cheeks of it by which Notch they reeve anie Roape into it. 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 17 The sides of the blockes, are called the cheekes. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 150 Cheeks of a block. The two sides of the shell. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 188 A one-cheeked block; the spar to which it is fastened being the other cheek. 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 22 A cheek with a sheave in it is secured on the top side of the bees, on each side, to form a lead for the fore guys. 1902 U.S. Patent 711,796 3/1 The block herein described having a shell comprising cheeks, with an annular sheave-protecting guard along their inside outer edge. 1959 Boatswain's Mate 3 & 2 (U.S. Bureau Navy Personnel) (new ed.) xi. 315 Oval blocks are built to the same specifications as diamond blocks, except that the cheeks are oval instead of diamond shaped. 2012 N. Loenen Wooden Boat Building vii. 147 To align the holes in the cheeks and those in the brass straps, temporarily assemble each block with the brass straps in place but without the sheave. b. Either of the horizontal pieces of wood, iron, etc., fixed on opposite sides of a mast to support the trestletrees and crosstrees. Now rare. ΚΠ 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. iii. 16 At the top of the fore Mast and maine Mast are spliced cheeks, or thicke clamps of wood. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon iv. i. 118 A Tree to make Cheeks for the Main-mast. 1744 J. Philips Authentic Jrnl. Exped. Anson 173 We found the Starboard Cheek of the Main Mast defective and rotten. 1778 J. Cook Jrnl. 4 Mar. (1967) III. i. 300 In cuting into the mast head for this purpose,..both cheeks were found so rotton that there was no possibility of repairing them. 1838 C. Martelli Naval Officer's Guide (ed. 2) 79 Sometimes a double block is strapped into the bolt into the cheek of the main mast. 1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 172 The mast is built up of several pieces..spindles, side-trees..cheeks. 1912 D. Hannay Sea Trader 4 There can be few of the younger race of sailors who know what were the spindle, or upper tree, the two side trees with their heel pieces, the side fishes, cheeks..and fillings of a ‘made mast’. 1942 Pop. Mech. July 126 The top of the cheeks are slanted equal to the mast rake to allow the trees to set parallel with the waterline. c. Either of the pieces of wood which connect and strengthen the joint between the bows of a ship and its beakhead or cutwater. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) The knees also which fasten the Beak-head to the Bows of a Ship are called Cheeks. 1787 Ld. Nelson Let. 7 Jan. in Dispatches & Lett. (1844) I. 207 The Pegasus was immediately hauled to the wharf... The cheeks of her head have been taken off. 1851 J. Peake Rudim. Naval Archit. II. xxix. 166 Fig. 1 (caption) Lower cheek, a wooden knee, as described for the upper cheek, and bolted also to the bows of the ship. 1921 Mariner's Mirror 7 127/1 One of a pair of cleats nailed at each side of the bow, below the gunwale on the outside, and running forward to the stem. A sort of rudimentary ‘cheek’ serving only to give a little additional strength. 1955 C. N. Longridge Anat. Nelson's Ships v. 79 The long leg of the lower cheek runs parallel with the long leg of the upper cheek and merges in the carved finial of the figurehead. d. Either of the parts of a pump which support the bolt of the handle; an ear (ear n.¹ 13). Cf. pump-cheeks n. at pump n.¹ Compounds 2. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > ship's pumps > parts of ship's pumps dale1611 sleeve1613 pump dalea1625 vale1685 cheek1727 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxii. 270 A Piece of Wood about 15 Foot high, with a Notch cut in the upper End, like the Cheeks of a Ship's Pump. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Cheville de potence de pompe, a..bolt which fastens the brake to the cheeks or ears of the pump. 1855 Technologisches Wörterbuch II. 395/1 The bilge-pump (a pump with brake and cheeks). 1987 P. Goodwin Constr. & Fitting Eng. Man of War v. 143/1 The pump handle was usually made from ash, and pivoted about a fulcrum formed by two cheeks or ‘ears’. e. Either of the circular pieces which support the carrick-bitts and contribute to the stability of the windlass. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 106 Cheeks are also the circular pieces on the aft side of the carrick-bitts. 1901 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Encycl. 47 (caption) Cheeks of Carrick Bitts. 1997 D. J. Souza Persistence of Sail in Age of Steam (1998) iv. 98 The wooden carrick-bitts, cheeks, and standard-knees have deteriorated. 10. Mining. A wall of a vein. Now rare. ΚΠ 1669 in J. H. Rieuwerts Gloss. Derbyshire Lead Mining Terms (1998) 42/2 Torre Cheeks. 1681 T. Houghton Rara Avis in Terris i. xxxviii. 37 We say, if any Vein or Rake go cross through another Rake or Vein, he that comes to the Pee first shall have it, and may work therein, so far as he can reach with a Pick, or Hack, having a helve three quarters of a yard long, so that he stand wholly within his own cheeks, when he works such a Pee. 1815 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. (ed. 2) xii. 290 The walls or cheeks of the vein are of two different kinds of stone. 1821 W. Forster Treat. Section Strata (ed. 2) 211 It has been observed before, that the two sides of a mineral, are called, by miners, the hanger and ledger, or the up cheek and down cheek. 1879 Trans. North of Eng. Inst. Mining Engineers 28 129 The ore..is very narrow nearly to the bottom of the section; it then widens considerably, and the ‘hanging cheek’ changes its character. 2001 T. D. Ford Geol. Matlock Mines 13 Near Low Mine, the cheeks of the vein are quartz-rock. Phrases †P1. In various curses or imprecations. Obsolete.See also maugre a person's cheeks at maugre prep. 2. ΚΠ c1330 Simonie (Auch.) (1991) l. 240 Þat so serueþ eny man, Godes curs in his cheke! a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) v. iv. sig. H.iiij Roister Doisters champion, I shrewe his best cheeke. P2. cheek by cheek: side by side, alongside; in close or intimate proximity. Cf. cheek to cheek adv., adj., and n., cheek by jowl adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > near by [phrase] > close together side by sidec1275 cheek by cheek?a1400 hand by hand?a1439 close1489 hand for hand1490 shoulder to shouldera1586 at (the) eye's end1628 knee to knee1760 corps à corps1890 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 223 So often away he wan, & vmwhile cheke bi cheke. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxxviii. sig. Tvi^v They..rode togyther cheke by cheke. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xxx. f. 101 Agathocles, sitting cheeke by cheeke with the king. 1791 Crit. Rev. Nov. 355 The pretty frontispiece, where they sit so amicably cheek by cheek together. 1890 Macmillan's Mag. July 236/2 The two pretty and inanimate child-faces lying cheek by cheek on the pillow. 1921 Publishers' Weekly 19 Mar. 992/2 Modern books could be shown cheek by cheek with the better (or best) old ones. 2014 R.Krznaric Empathy i. 33 We now need to absorb and internalize a different frame, which is the idea that empathy lies at the core of our being, cheek by cheek with self-interest. P3. to turn the other cheek and variants: to refuse to retaliate; to allow the repetition or continuation of an insult or offence.The phrase alludes to Jesus's teaching, described in Matthew 5:39 and Luke 6:29. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (intransitive)] to turn the other cheek1529 to go down like ninepins1791 to take (a beating, defeat, etc.) lying down1888 to take (something) sitting down1899 1525 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. v. f. vi^v Yf a man geve the a blowe on thy right cheke, tourne to hym the othre [Gk. ὅστις σε ῥαπίζει εἰς τὴν δεξιὰν σιαγόνα [σου], στρέψον αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην].] 1529 S. Fish tr. H. Bomelius Summe Holye Script. xxvi. sig. O. vii^v Thou wilt willingly tourne the other cheke [Du. den anderen wange toe sout houden] bere the blowe pacyently. 1622 T. Adams Eirenopolis 104 A man is stricken, will hee goe to law for this? no, rather let him turne the other cheeke. 1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 34 Those who laugh at the precept of turning the other cheek. 1720 T. Seaton Conduct of Servants xiii. 178 Our Religion teaches us..to turn the other Cheek to him that has already Smote one of them. 1796 Berkeley Hall; or, Pupil of Experience III. xviii. 195 I will turn t'other cheek to thy smitings. 1814 E. Everett Def. Christianity xi. 425 If a man obeyed all the other Christian laws..it would be no oppression to him that he was enjoined to turn the other cheek. 1850 O. W. Holmes Astræa 50 Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek, To take one blow, and turn the other cheek. 1930 J. A. Williamson Short Hist. Brit. Expansion (ed. 2) II. vi. v. 247 Nothing but the consciousness of a good cause enabled Lord Salisbury to turn the cheek to the smiter. 1969 Listener 28 Aug. 275/1 Nye [Bevan] was never one to turn the other cheek. 2005 Independent 14 Feb. 32/4 Should we have turned the other cheek? †P4. cheeks and ears n. Obsolete a kind of headdress. ΚΠ 1605 London Prodigall sig. F2 Fran. Thou canst tell how to helpe mee to cheekes and eares... Civ. I, I, Kester; tis such as they weare a their heads. 1822 R. Nares Gloss. Cheeks and ears, a fantastic name for a kind of head-dress, of temporary fashion. P5. to one's own cheek: to oneself, for one's private use or advantage. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [phrase] > in his, its, etc., self > to or for oneself to one's own cheek1823 1703 J. Bannatyne Let. from Presbyterian Minister 11 Here I give Cheek to my self, knowing that the very Reverend Commission will supply you with Faithful Ministers of their own Number.] 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 24 When any one becomes a greedy guts and sups up all, he ‘takes it all to his own cheek’. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 123/2 Such a thing as a moor bird..which can be eat up to a man's own cheek. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles II. ix. 101 If I spent my earnings.., or let Tim keep his to his own cheek, where should we be? 1944 F. O'Connor Crab Apple Jelly 5 They said she had three hundred pounds to her own cheek the day she set foot in the school. 1956 Times 14 Feb. 9/4 That young lady..has had thirty of the dratted things [sc. Valentine cards] all to her own cheek. P6. tongue in cheek: see tongue-in-cheek adj. and adv. Compounds C1. Objective with participles, as cheek distending, cheek reddening, cheek burning, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 162 The cheek-distending oath. 1899 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea I. 276 A cheek-rasping breeze that makes you sit down under the bulwarks and gasp for breath. 1913 Outing Jan. 456/1 The cold season offers greater opportunities for healthy cheek-reddening outdoor fun. 1979 E. Mace Brother Enemy vii. 54 It was a dreadful, cheek-withering whiff that made Andreas draw back in a hurry. 2000 Times 30 Sept. 8/2 I certainly knew the cheek-burning humiliation of being caned in front of my classmates. C2. cheek ball n. the rounded part of the cheek. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [noun] > rounded part of cheek ball1585 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 28/1 Gena, mala, the cheeke ball. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 649 The powder of vnwashed wooll..doth very effectually purge the eye-lides or cheeke-bals. 1844 Ayrshire Wreath 156 I can see [his eyes]..squeezed from their sockets, and hanging like jellies on his cheek balls. 1994 M. S. Willis Mountains of Amer. 61 His father's face was squeezed up like a baby's, tiny eyes, tiny mouth, little cheek balls. cheek-band n. (a) either of the side straps of a horse's bridle, connecting the headpiece with the bit; = sense 7a; (b) a band of contrasting colour on the cheek of an animal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of headstallc1330 trench1480 stalk1497 musrol1551 head-strain?1561 water-chain?1561 throat band1585 cavesson1598 mullen1598 nose bit?a1600 front-stall1601 ampyx1607 chain1607 fillet1607 cheek-band1611 cheekpiece1611 noseband1611 throat thong1611 headpiece1678 throatlatch1693 headband1704 trenchefil1730 bridoon1744 banquet1753 head1756 cheek1795 throat strap1803 frontlet1805 throat-lash1805 cheekstrap1834 brow-band1844 nosepiece1865 shank1879 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Porte-mors The cheeke-peece, or cheeke-band, of a Bridle. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. vii. 241 There is an ornament like a flower de luce..in the angle between the nose-band and the cheek-band. 1891 G. E. Shelley in P. L. Sclater & G. E. Shelley Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. XIX. 88 Cheek-band bordering the red of throat jet-black. 1902 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 16 273 The usual broad white cheek-band occupies the whole area below the eyes, from the nose to the side of the neck. 1973 S. Ali & S. D. Ripley Handbk. Birds India & Pakistan IX. 204 Young similar to adult but crown paler, cheek-band cream instead of white. 2004 K. Forsyth Tower of Ravens (2005) 38 He dragged on the cheek-band and pushed at the horse's flank until at last she summoned the energy to stand. † cheek blade n. Obsolete either side of the jawbone. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > zygomatic arch > cheekbones cheek lapa1382 cheek bonea1425 cheek blade1535 seat of the skull1552 yoke bone1615 gumble1688 jugal1854 malar1866 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit vi. 3 Take him by the cheke blade [Ger. flosfedern, L. branchia], and drawe him to the. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 396 I'll give you a Fluet on the Cheek blade, 'till the Fire flee from your Een Holes. 1808 Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Cheek-blade, the cheek-bone. cheek-block n. Nautical (now archaic) a block (block n. 2a) one side of which is formed by the surface to which it is fastened; = half block n. (cf. sense 9a). ΚΠ 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 155 Cheek-blocks, or half-blocks, are made of elm plank. 1883 E. H. Taunt Young Sailor's Assistant 150 What is a cheek block? A block having but one cheek. It is bolted to a mast or gaff, and they form the other cheek. 1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea i. 5 Pullings..said, ‘Well, and so you've done it again, sir’, before going on to the foretopmost cheekblocks. cheek bristles n. plural the tactile whiskers on the snout of a mammal; the facial hair or bristles of a man. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [noun] > miscellaneous parts of > whiskers camps?a1500 smelling-organ1596 mustachios1605 granons1607 smeller1665 cheek bristles1848 1848 G. R. Waterhouse Nat. Hist. Mammalia II. 216 They [sc. viscachas] differ, moreover, from the specimens in which the cheek bristles are wanting. 1900 A. Hill Introd. Sci. 30 When darkness approaches..its cheek-bristles..save it from contact with passive objects. 2010 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 28 Feb. b1 He hoped to win the best overall award for the most striking cheek bristles. cheek-down n. soft facial hair, esp. the first beard growth of an adolescent boy. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > down > of face pappus1857 cheek-down1887 1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xi. 201 Upon their faces the cheek-down blossomed fair. 1997 W. G. Andrews et al. Ottoman Lyric Poetry 107 A person with soft, dark cheek-down..is considered an appropriate love-object. cheek feather n. a short feather used in making artificial flies for fly-fishing, esp. to add brilliance or colour. ΚΠ 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling xiii. 400 Cheek feathers—that is short feathers. 1951 L. Wulff New Handbk. Freshwater Fishing iv. 63 The cheek feathers may have come from Brooklyn instead of India but if it looks ‘buggy’..the fish will be interested. 2008 D. Talleur Trout Flies 21st Cent. (Tying notes) vi. 130/1 Place a small droplet of Elmer's Glue or something similar on the back of the eye, which can be seen through the cheek feather. cheek flap n. a cheek or part of a cheek detached or severed from the face, esp. for the purpose of reconstructive or cosmetic surgery. ΚΠ 1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xvi. 335 The blade..slivering downward, left The cheek-flap dangling. 1878 Med. Press & Circular 23 Jan. 64/2 Dieffenbach's method of sliding a cheek-flap into the gap left by the previous excision, appeared to me the simplest and best. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Plastic Surg. 21 374 Cheek flap brought across towards the nose to re-form lower lid. 1996 C. H. Rassekh in B. J. Bailey et al. Atlas Head & Neck Surg. xxiii. 54/2 The mucosal flap is rotated and advanced to allow it to be sutured to the superior edge of the cheek flap. cheek implant n. (in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery) an implant of moulded silicone and plastic placed on or below the cheekbone to restore or enhance the appearance of the cheek. ΚΠ 1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 30 Nov. 8/2 The McLachlen girl required cheek implants and 50 stitches as a result of the attack by the dog. 1998 K. Allman Hot Shot 60 Mary Lasater sucked in the skin below her cheek implants. 2005 J. Austen TV-a-go-go ix. 242 Jessica (née Michael), a pre-op transsexual, got breast and cheek implants, eyebrow bone shaving, and a lowered hairline to look like Jennifer Lopez. cheek knee n. = sense 9c. ΚΠ 1830 P. Hedderwick Treat. Marine Archit. ii. 210 The cheek-knees should shew the same depth as the upper rail. 1884 S. B. Luce Text-bk. Seamanship (rev. ed.) 490 A rope..could be passed around the bowsprit and through a suitable hole cut through the stem head above the cheek knees. 1960 P. J. Grillo What is Design? 88 Members chosen from the natural curves and forks of an oak tree suitable for shipbuilding.—1. Cheek knee. † cheek lap n. Obsolete = sense 1a; cf. cheek bone n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > zygomatic arch > cheekbones cheek lapa1382 cheek bonea1425 cheek blade1535 seat of the skull1552 yoke bone1615 gumble1688 jugal1854 malar1866 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) Judges xv. 15 A fowndyn cheekebon, þat is þe cheklappe [L. mandibulam] of an asse. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 116 (MED) Anotamie of..nose, chekelappis, mouþ. a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Lev. xi. 29 A cokedril..hauynge the nether cheke lap vnmeuable, and meuynge the ouere. cheek patch n. a patch of contrasting colour on the cheek of an animal, esp. a bird. ΚΠ 1848 Agric. Gaz. 6 May 305/3 The others [sc. fowl] are pure white, in shape and carriage exactly like the black Spanish, only wanting the white cheek-patch. 1891 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1890 42 16 Face [of the bat Pteropus vulgaris] uniformly covered with short, brown hair without distinct cheek-patch. 1929 Illus. London News 9 Nov. 804/1 The tree-sparrow is..recognisable at sight by the black cheek-patch set upon a ground-work of white. 2014 J. M. Black et al. Barnacle Goose i. 27 As is the case with Canada Geese, the white cheek-patch is used for signalling information to mates, kin and flock members. cheek pouch n. a pouch-like enlargement of the cheek, esp. in certain rodents and monkeys, used for storing or carrying food. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > cheek-pouch cheek pouch1653 pouch1803 the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > monkey > parts of cheek pouch1653 palm1863 poma1889 1653 Ghost or Woman wears the Breeches 9 He has borrow'd sure a Cheek-pouch of some Monkey, and stuft it full with Bonds and interest money. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 80 It is probable that we shall have to separate from the Squirrels certain species which have cheek pouches like the Hamsters. 1986 R. Bakker Dinosaur Heresies (1988) viii. 171 Horned dinosaurs had cheek pouches and could employ tongue-cheek coordination to keep chopping the bolus into ever finer slices. 2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xix. 481 The cercopithecines have cheek pouches (or buccal sacs) in which they store food. cheek-pouched adj. that possesses cheek pouches. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [adjective] > of body or parts of foxtailed1774 silky1781 red-handed1819 cheek-pouched1844 cebocephalic1881 pomatic1889 1844 S. Lee Elements Nat. Hist. 45 Nycteris. Cheek-pouched Bats. 1907 V. A. Julius in A. Wright Twentieth Cent. Impressions of Ceylon (1999) 157/3 There are four kinds of simians in Ceylon, viz., the Rilawa, a macaque or cheek-pouched monkey, and three Wanduras, or Langurs. 2010 D. Whittaker in R. Hubrecht & J. Kirkwood UFAW Handbk. Care & Managem. Lab. Animals (ed. 8) ii. xxiv. 348/1 Hamsters as a group can be described as stout-bodied, stubby-tailed, broad-headed, cheek-pouched, burrowing and nest building rodents. cheek rose n. (in plural) the rosy central parts of the cheeks. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iv. 16 Haile Virgin..as those cheeke-Roses Proclaime you are no lesse. View more context for this quotation 1919 Med. Summary Sept. 153/1 The reduction of auto-intoxication..is evident in improved color, the cheek roses being distinct. 2004 U. Plahter et al. Painted Altar Frontals Norway II. ii. iii. 126/1 Cheek roses, eye sockets and shadows along the nose ridge..are painted yellowish-red. cheekstrap n. either of the side straps of a horse's bridle, connecting the headpiece with the bit; = sense 7a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of headstallc1330 trench1480 stalk1497 musrol1551 head-strain?1561 water-chain?1561 throat band1585 cavesson1598 mullen1598 nose bit?a1600 front-stall1601 ampyx1607 chain1607 fillet1607 cheek-band1611 cheekpiece1611 noseband1611 throat thong1611 headpiece1678 throatlatch1693 headband1704 trenchefil1730 bridoon1744 banquet1753 head1756 cheek1795 throat strap1803 frontlet1805 throat-lash1805 cheekstrap1834 brow-band1844 nosepiece1865 shank1879 1834 D. Walker Brit. Manly Exercises 103 (caption) The headstall with the cheekstraps. 1936 R. F. Adams Cowboy Lingo ix. 97 To mount a horse in this manner the cowboy grasped the cheek strap of the bridle just above the bits. 1994 C. McCarthy Crossing 274 He dropped back and took hold of the bridle cheekstrap and walked beside the horse and talked to it. cheek-varnish n. now historical a cosmetic used to colour the cheeks; rouge. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > paints or colours > reddening reda1398 cloth of Levant1497 red leather1545 safflower1583 cheek-varnish1598 vermilion1600 rubric1650 rud1651 Spanish wool1678 French reda1680 saffranon1731 French rouge?1745 rouge1746 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Purpurino..a liuely redde colour women vse for painting, called cheeke-varnish. 1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) xv. 266 The baudy trimming of which cheeke-varnish proves but a loathsome nastinesse. 1811 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kempfer Hist. Japan in J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. VII. 711 The best [shells] are brought from the Riuku islands, and are the chief ingredient of their white cheek varnish. 2002 R. Flannagan John Milton 105 Milton associates formal poetic epithets, or at least the Greek ones, with cheek-varnish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). cheekv. Brit. /tʃiːk/, U.S. /tʃik/ Forms: see cheek n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: cheek n. Etymology: < cheek n. †1. transitive. To form a side or cheek of (an object); to border or line. Usually in passive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > side [verb (transitive)] > be in or take up position at the side of cheeka1552 side1600 flank1779 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 54 To begyn this Causey, chekid on eche side. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxiv. 375 The brasse That cheek't Eupitheus Caske. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 87 The Altars round about the Church, are cheeked with exquisit pillars. 1743 Hist., Geneal., & Classical Dict. I. at Feciales They denounced war against them, by casting a spear..which was either cheeked with iron, or besmeared with blood. 1861 H. Rosales in Victorian Govt. Prize Ess. 1860 216 (note) The miners of Bendigo and other parts of the colony call quartz lodes only such quartz dykes as are cheeked with slate and sandstone. †2. transitive. to cheek a pike: to assume a military posture in which a pike is held by the cheeks (cheek n. 8a). Obsolete. N.E.D. (1889) gives the following explanation, attributed to T. Bunyan: ‘The pike-man at the command Cheek your pike, grasped it with the left hand below the head, where the first and second rivets are, the head to the front, blade horizontal, left foot advanced, left elbow touching the side, the right hand grasping the pole at the right thigh, the pole sloping downwards, the butt nearly at the ground.’ ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (intransitive)] > position weapons > position pike to cheek a pike1608 to comport the pike1627 1608 tr. J. de Gheyn Brief Instr. Right Vse of Pike sig. b, in Exercise of Arms Cheeke your pike [Du. Aent punt u spies hout]. 1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 23 The sixe which are to be done marching, are—Advance your Pike, Shoulder your Pike, Levell your Pike, Sloape your Pike, Cheeke your Pike, Trayle your Pike. a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 279 Standing at some poor Sutlers Tent, With his Pike cheek't, to guard the Tun. 3. a. transitive. To address (a person) cheekily or impudently; to behave towards (a person) with audacity or insolence. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > treat impudently [verb (transitive)] > speak impudently to sauce1822 to give (a person) sauce1823 sass1836 cheek1840 chin1871 lip1898 back-sass1917 smart-mouth1970 1840 E. C. Bayley Haileybury Observer 4 Nov. 53 The various sensations of the party Cheeked. 1865 Sat. Rev. 30 Dec. 811/2 There are boys at every school who are never so elated as when they have ‘cheeked’ the master. 1884 G. Moore Mummer's Wife (1887) 188 You must pluck up courage and cheek the Baillie. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay i. i. 31 One main source of excitement for us was ‘cheeking’ people in vans and carts. 1978 in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. Hist. Princ. (1996) at White She cheeked me—hell she's white, that one. 2014 J. Burchill Unchosen (2015) iii. 53 I cheeked my mum, I swore at the dog, I abused myself. b. transitive. to cheek it: to brazen something out; to carry through something by effrontery. Often with out. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > be or become impudent [verb (intransitive)] to bear oneself stout1338 to have the (also a) neck (to)c1395 perk1529 pert1637 to brazen it out1712 to be (also get) smart1736 to push (also show) a face1765 to cheek it1851 whipper-snap1908 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 406/1 Persons as was coming the same road persuaded me to go and beg with them, but I couldn't cheek it. 1905 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 133 535/2 There is no reasonable doubt that they are bluffing it out—or cheeking it out. 1975 ‘W. Henry’ I, Tom Horn 90 ‘Oh, sure,’ I said, cheeking it out. 4. transitive. To accuse or confront (a person). Now rare (English regional (Lincolnshire) in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > accuse [verb (transitive)] edwitec825 witec893 accuseOE bespeaka1000 forwrayOE atwiteOE blamea1300 impugn1377 publishc1384 defamea1387 appeach1430 becryc1440 surmisea1485 arguea1522 infame1531 insimulate1532 note1542 tax1548 resperse1551 finger-point1563 chesoun1568 touch1570 disclaim1590 impeach1590 intent1613 question1620 accriminate1641 charge1785 cheek1877 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cheek, to accuse. ‘I cheek'd him wi' it, an' he couldn't say a wod.’ 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 56/1 Cheek, to accuse of doing something wrong. ‘'E 'ad the chelp ta cheek me ta me faace.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOEv.a1552
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