cheekful

plural cheekfuls · plural cheeksful

1. A partial mouthful, enough to fill one's cheek.

   Jenkins hit the ground hard enough to come up with cheekfuls of sand, despite the mouth guard FCPO Healy had insisted they all wear.

   2007, Joseph Staten, Halo: Contact Harvest, New York: Tor, →ISBN, page 168

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   I stop at one of the largest of these pools, undress and plunge in. Happily I flounder about, terrifying the minnows, and float on my back and spout cheekfuls of water at the sun.

   1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 191