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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



... "Well! Of all cool cheek," she exploded. "That was my bouquet. It was given to me, not to you, Renie Beverley. Next time you start being charitable use your own flowers, not mine. You haven't ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil
... who desire more definite hints regarding feeding of children, an outline has been prepared for several days. This is very simple feeding, but it is the kind of feeding that will make a rose bloom in each cheek. The child will be happy and contented and bring joy to ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker
... of it!' Then came what my heart will keep till I see her again and longer—the most perfect expression of her love to me within my whole knowledge of her. Always smilingly, happily, and with a face like a girl's—and in a few minutes she died in my arms; her head on my cheek. These incidents so sustain me that I tell them to her beloved ones as their right: there was no lingering, nor acute pain, nor consciousness of separation, but God took her to himself as you would lift a sleeping child from a dark, ...
— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr
... with sleep. But he heard the last words of Winfried as he spoke of the angelic messengers, flying over the hills of Judea and singing as they flew. The child wondered and dreamed and listened. Suddenly his face grew bright. He put his lips close to Irma's cheek again. ...
— The First Christmas Tree - A Story of the Forest • Henry Van Dyke
... rode, Proudly his red-roan charger trode, His helm hung at the saddlebow; Well by his visage you might know He was a stalwart knight, and keen, And had in many a battle been; The scar on his brown cheek revealed A token true of Bosworth field; His eyebrow dark, and eye of fire, Showed spirit proud and prompt to ire; Yet lines of thought upon his cheek Did deep design and counsel speak. His forehead, by his casque worn ...
— Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field • Walter Scott


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