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Definition of Cheek
Cheek

The side of the face below the eye.

The cheek bone.

Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

The branches of a bridle bit.

A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.

Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.

To be impudent or saucy to.

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Cheek Quotations

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
David Ogilvy

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
Thomas Moore

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
James Herriot

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.
Jessica Simpson

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt

I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.
Jensen Ackles

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Bela Lugosi

Cheek Translations

cheek in Afrikaans is wang
cheek in Danish is kind
cheek in Dutch is koon, wang, kaak
cheek in Finnish is poski
cheek in French is joue
cheek in German is Wange {f}, Backe {f}, Backe {f}
cheek in Italian is guancia, mascella
cheek in Norwegian is kinn, kinn
cheek in Portuguese is face, mordente
cheek in Spanish is mejilla
cheek in Swedish is skinka, kind


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