cheeked

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/t͡ʃiːkt/

adjective

Having some specific type of cheek.

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivecheeked (not comparable)
  1. in compoundsnot comparableusuallyHaving some specific type of cheek.

    Past rivers and hills she went, and met a bushy-cheeked tiger on the path […]

    1973, William Buck, transl., Mahabharata, New York: Meridian, published 1993, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 76
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    Oh here be rare apples, red-cheeked apples that cry come kiss me: apples, hold your peace, I'll teach you to cry. [Eats one.

    1599, Thomas Dekker, edited by Oliphant Smeaton, Old Fortunatus, London: J.M. Dent, published 1904, act IV, scene I, page 89

    1771, Miguel de Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha, translators not credited, London: W. Cowper, Vol. III, p. 87, https://books.google.ca/books?id=v80ZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false […] and perceiving her to be no more than a plain country-wench, so far from being well-favoured, that she was blubber-cheeked, and flat-nosed, he was lost in astonishment, and could not utter a word.

    I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine.

    1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, New York: Century, published 1907, page 146

    Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. You will suffer horribly....

    1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter II”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC

    The earliest painting that can be attributed to his reign is of a plump, rosy-cheeked adolescent wearing a splendid conical turban and a huge emerald necklace.

    1983, Mark Zebrowski, Deccani painting, page 73
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of cheek

Translations

Finnish -poskinen
  • -poskinenhaving some specific type of cheek
Turkish yanaklı
  • yanaklıhaving some specific type of cheek

Rhymes & wordplay

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