单词 | cheeked |
释义 | cheekedadj. As the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having cheeks of the specified kind or resembling the thing specified.Earliest in blob-cheeked at blob n.1 Compounds.apple cheeked, blub-cheeked, bright-cheeked, cherry-cheeked, fair-cheeked, hollow-cheeked, lean-cheeked, pink-cheeked, plump-cheeked, rosy-cheeked, smooth-cheeked, etc.: see the first element.Cf. also red-cheeked adj., rose-cheeked adj., white-cheeked adj. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blobbe cheked, buccones. 1571 Dict. French & Eng. Ioufflu, fat cheeked. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 775 Blub cheeked, and exceeding red faced. 1669 J. G. tr. M. de Vulson Court of Curiositie 202 He is long cheekt; his complexion is of a honey-colour. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. iii. 25 When Bessy Feetock's chuffy-cheeked Wean, To a Fairy turn'd. 1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds V. 55 The brown-cheeked Pennsylvanian lark. 1829 S. J. Hale Sketches Amer. Char. 122 Chubby cheeked, freckled, romping girls. 1878 N. Miner Triplets lix. 404 It was the dirty-cheeked girl—emptying slop. 1929 Everybody's Jan. 70/2 A band rolling by.., red-faced, balloon-cheeked, tootling on the tuba and the clarinet. 1987 J. Epstein Once more around Block 141 Creamy-cheeked men and women whom..the English call newsreaders. 2012 L. Jewell Before I met You (2013) xi. 68 A somewhat hamster-cheeked man with a pencil mustache. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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