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Cheek   /tʃik/   Listen
Cheek

noun
1.
Either side of the face below the eyes.
2.
An impudent statement.  Synonyms: impertinence, impudence.
3.
Either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump.  Synonym: buttock.
4.
Impudent aggressiveness.  Synonyms: boldness, brass, face, nerve.  "He had the effrontery to question my honesty"
verb
1.
Speak impudently to.



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"Cheek" Quotes from Famous Books



... whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose eye, Shone beauty and pleasure,—her triumphs are by; And the memory of those who loved her and praised, Are alike from the minds ...
— The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor: An Address • Abraham Lincoln

... complete knowledge of human nature Sam Slick shows, when he says, 'A bilious cheek and a sour temper are like the Siamese twins: there's a nateral cord of union atween them. The one is a sign with the name of the firm written on ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various

... his hand to his cheek, crying wofully, "You've drawn, beastly gaoler! a night out of my ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... breathed like a panting baby. His legs were swelled, and his feet rested on a footstool. His face, which was wont to be the colour of a peony rose, was of a yellow hue, with a patch of red on each cheek like a wafer; and his nose was shirpit and sharp, and of an unnatural purple. Death was evidently fighting with nature for the possession of the body. "Heaven have mercy on his soul!" said I to myself, as I sat ...
— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt

... Reminiscences of Mrs. J. G. Currie, born at Niagara in 1829 and living there at the time of the trouble, are printed in the Niagara Hist. Soc., Pub. No. 20. Mrs. Currie gives a brief account (p. 331) and says that one of the party, one MacIntyre, had a bullet or bayonet wound in his cheek. In Miss Carnochan's account, her informant, who was the daughter of a slave who had escaped in 1802 and was herself born in Niagara in 1824, says that "the sheriff went up and down slashing with his sword ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various


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