cheek
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Cheek is the fleshy side of the face below the eye.
The word extends to corresponding parts on animals and to analogous surfaces: the cheeks of a vise, the cheeks of a door frame.
Cheek also means boldness or impudence: He had the cheek to ask for a raise after showing up late all week.
The adjective cheeky describes someone showing such boldness, often with charm.
To turn the other cheek is to respond to offense without retaliation.
Cheek to cheek describes intimate closeness, as in dancing.
Signal-carrying body fiber
- gallImpudent boldness or bitterness
- audacityBrazen, reckless daring
- brassCopper-zinc metal mixture
- effronteryShameless, insolent boldness
chutzpah · impertinence · insolence · brazenness · temerity · sass · lip · backtalk
Facial skin depression
- smilePleased facial expression
- grinBroad, toothy smile
- tearsViolent pulls apart
- blushingFacial reddening from embarrassment
flushing · reddening · streaming · wet · tear-stained · rosy · glowing · pale
Head's anterior surface
- jawlineLower facial boundary
- buccalPertaining to cheeks
- maxillaUpper jaw bone
- mandibleLower facial bone
bone · skin · contour · jowl · dimple · complexion · hollow · facial
nerve
Signal-carrying body fiber
effrontery · chutzpah · impertinence · insolence · brazenness · temerity · sass · lip · backtalk · disrespect
dimple
Facial skin depression
blushing · flushing · reddening · streaming · wet · tear-stained · rosy · glowing · pale · hollow
face
Head's anterior surface
mandible · bone · skin · contour · jowl · dimple · complexion · hollow · facial · flesh
blush
Facial reddening from emotion
- rougeCosmetic cheek tint
- highlighterLuminous ink pen
- contourBounding line of shape
bronzer · flush · rosy · glow · tint · radiance · shimmer · powder · pigment · application
bottom
Lowest point or underside
bum · behind · seat · derriere · glute · haunch · posterior · hindquarters
- body partsarm, leg, hand, back, chest
- Facechin, nose, mouth, eyes, eye
- animal partsappendage, forelimb, hind leg, hind legs, hindlegs
- audacityboldness, brazenness, audacity, chutzpah, gall
- mouth anatomytongue, teeth, palate, lips, gums
- Featuresfacial features, eye, landscape features, safety features, special features
- turn the other cheekRefuse to retaliate
- tongue in cheekHumorously insincere manner
- cheek to jowlIn very close proximity
- chubby cheeksFull, rounded face sides
- cheek to cheekWith faces touching
- red cheeks
cheeky, cheeks, cheeked, cheekbone, cheekily, cheekiness, cheeking, cheekbones, cheekful