Jowl

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The jaw, especially the lower jaw.
  • n. The cheek.
  • n. The flesh under the lower jaw, especially when plump or flaccid.
  • n. A fleshy part similar to a jowl, such as the dewlap of a cow or the wattle of a fowl.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
  • n. the cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
  • v. To throw, dash, or knock.
  • n. a fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
  • n. cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The cheek; the jaw.
  • v. To throw, dash, or knock.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The cheek.
  • n. The cheek or head of a pig, salmon, etc., prepared for the table: as, jowl and greens is a Virginia dish.
  • To strike or dash, as the jowl or head; butt; clash with violence, as horns.
  • To scold; “jaw.”
  • In coal-mining, to hammer on the coal for the purpose of ascertaining what thickness intervenes between two contiguous workings.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging)
  • n. the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
  • Hypernym
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    jole    choule    chowle    geoule   
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    heady   
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    Raul    afoul    cowl    crowl    foul    fowl    growl    howl    owl    prowl   
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    cheekbone    eyelid    chin    forearm    mustache    mustaches    snout    jawline    scalp    eyelash