Jowl
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Jowl![]() ![]() Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jowl \Jowl\, v. t.
To throw, dash, or knock. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
How the knave jowls it to the ground. --Shak.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 Jowl \Jowl\ (joul or j[=o]l), n. [For older chole, chaul, AS. ceaft jaw. Cf. Chaps.] The cheek; the jaw. [Written also jole, choule, chowle, and geoule.] [1913 Webster] Cheek by jowl, with the cheeks close together; side by side; in close proximity. "I will go with thee cheek by jole." --Shak. " Sits cheek by jowl." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
jowl
n 1: the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
[syn: lower jaw, mandible, mandibula, mandibular
bone, submaxilla, lower jawbone, jawbone, jowl]
2: a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and
jaw (characteristic of aging)
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 45 Moby Thesaurus words for "jowl": bank, bazoo, beam, border, broadside, chaps, cheek, chop, chops, coast, embouchure, flank, gab, gob, hand, handedness, haunch, hip, jaw, jaws, jowls, kisser, laterality, lips, mandibles, many-sidedness, maw, maxilla, mouth, mug, multilaterality, mush, muzzle, oral cavity, planking, premaxilla, profile, quarter, shore, side, siding, temple, trap, unilaterality, yap Matching Word(s) Owl Bowl Cowl Dowl Fowl Gowl Howl Sowl Yowl Joll Joul owl jowly bowl cowl fowl howl yowl joel jol josl Joel
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