doorcheek

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noun

The jamb of a door.

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Meanings

noundoorcheek (plural doorcheeks)

plural doorcheeks

  1. The jamb of a door.

    The doorcheck on that doorway was loose and the door always banged behind him making him startle

    2015, Meyer Levin, Frankie & Johnnie
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    And dippe a bunch of hyſſope in the blould that is at the doore, and ſprinkle the vppertranſome of the doore therwith, and both the doore cheekes: let none of you goe out of the doore of his houſe til morning.

    1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodus 12:22, page 186

Origin

From door + cheek.

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doorcheek. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doorcheek

MLA

“doorcheek.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doorcheek. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “doorcheek,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doorcheek.

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