jowl
11
6.8
- noun
- /dʒaʊl/
:
papada
- Am I going to develop jowls like my father when I get older?
We have gravity changes in the jowls, the neck, the cheeks, this brow's down a little bit.
- We have gravity changes in the jowls, the neck, the cheeks, this brow's down a little bit.
- Where if you close your eyes and push your face you can feel his stubbly jowls.
- Maybe you need to fill your jowls with that marinara own crust and queso.
- Or sometimes if you got somebody who kind of has jowls and you know, well, when they lay back, that was fall back.
- Just hide starbursts under his tongue all day and just let the get the and just get that slow melt into his jowls that just says slow secretion of that sugar water.
Examples
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I'm going back home where I can get some good things in life, like hog jowls and possum shank.
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The hair is gone, the jowls shriveled, the toothless mouth gapes.
Fiction book (1993) -
Am I getting my mother's jowls?
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I'm worried about my jowls.
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His jowls, he knew, were the jowls of an older man.
Fiction book (2000) -
The man with the undulating jowls.
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The man looked more natural, jowls beginning to sag, his face, sad eyes lost in deep sockets.
Fiction book (2001) -
Sweat was trickling down his jowls and pooling at the bottom of his neck.
Fiction book (1991) -
In its black and panting jowls, a white hare dangled by the nape of its neck.
Fiction book (1992) -
His large face was framed by thick jowls that sagged slightly as he smiled.
Synonyms
The lower part of the face that includes cheek and jaw
Idioms
How Saggy
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2.7
11
6.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jowl comes from an old word for the lower 'cheek' and is like the familiar word jaw, so you can picture the lower part of the face. That's why a jowl is the soft, often sagging flesh along the lower cheek or jaw.