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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cheek
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cheeks...flushed
▪ Her cheeks were flushed, her expression angry.
gave...peck on the cheek
▪ He gave her a quick peck on the cheek.
plant a kiss on sb's cheek/forehead etc (=to kiss someone on their cheek etc)
▪ Stephen planted a kiss on his daughter’s forehead.
rosy cheeks
▪ the kids' rosy cheeks
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
flushed
▪ The heavy brown head lolled a flushed cheek on the red cushion that supported his bandaged shoulder.
▪ I won't remember it, thought Fenella, leaning her flushed cheek against the cold window.
▪ And when she reached her room Lucy told herself her flushed cheeks were merely the result of the climb up the slope.
hollow
▪ Even with all this, the hollow cheeks, the scalp withered, you could still see how handsome Hugh had been.
▪ White-faced, with a three-day-old beard, hollow cheeks and staring eyes, Sikes looked like a ghost.
▪ Its flame showed up her hollow cheeks, the haunted eyes.
left
▪ A faint scar ran the length of his left cheek.
▪ It was a small piece of shrapnel, but it did a number on the left cheek of my hind end.
▪ The scars on his left cheek seeped a pale blood.
▪ He has a possible mole on his left cheek and was wearing a beret.
▪ But his second, which caromed off my left cheek and opened it like a zipper, was just as bad.
▪ Did you spot that tiny patch of freckles on her left cheek?
▪ He ran home, blood trickling down his left cheek.
pale
▪ Smaller than Levant Sparrowhawk, with pale cheeks, pale tail and brown on neck.
▪ I reached out to touch its pale cheek.
▪ His pale cheeks had taken on a ruddy glow.
▪ His only movement was in the tears which crept down his pale cheeks.
pink
▪ She had always had pink in her cheeks and soft rose on her lips.
▪ Their appearance may not be one of illness because of these pink cheeks.
▪ A pang of conscience sent a light wash of pink into her cheeks.
red
▪ It was a thin, elegant face with bright spots of red on the cheeks, like a painted lady.
▪ The fifth day of every month he got his Red Cross cheek.
▪ They had an impression of very red cheeks and moist yellow hair smeared over the scalp like egg yolk.
▪ Tekla, the dark-eyed young Gentile woman with red cheeks, brought us tea and rock-hard kichel.
▪ His eyes were red, his cheeks wet with tears.
▪ She hummed quite happily again, her two red cheeks exuding her interrupted cheerfulness.
▪ Her eyes were not so red, her cheeks blooming like roses.
▪ He was a stocky boy of middle height, with blue eyes, a bristling crew cut, and red cheeks.
right
▪ The man ducked, weaving to his left so that Trent's fist caught him high on the right cheek.
▪ Small contusion on the right cheek as well.
▪ He had fallen and lain with his right cheek pressed into the wet leaves.
▪ In return Jaq had received a new electro-tattoo, imprinted on to his right cheek by Carnelian.
rosy
▪ Billy Brown had rosy cheeks, blue eyes and smiled all the time.
▪ Carefully paint eyes, a nose, a mouth and rosy cheeks on to the pixie's face.
▪ Her own rosy cheeks were so countrified.
■ VERB
brush
▪ When he brushed his cheek against hers or supported her waist in multiple pirouettes the sensual heat was unmissable.
▪ The great thick braid of spun metal hung over her shoulder, and brushed his cheek as she leaned over him.
▪ A spider the size of her thumbnail dropped past her in the gloom, its legs brushing her cheek.
▪ Death had brushed Dustin's cheek twice, threatening to take him first by fire and secondly by a bomb.
▪ The rough tweed of his jacket brushed her cheek and she caught the scent of soap and his aftershave.
▪ A rough chin brushing his cheek.
▪ Michele's lips brushed first one cheek then the other, his tongue-tip gathering the twin tears.
▪ No sigh of wind brushed David's cheek in the silence.
feel
▪ As she began each one, Mum's words came back to her and she felt her cheeks growing hot.
▪ Robbie felt her cheeks flush scarlet and she looked about her in angry embarrassment.
▪ He could feel his cheeks bulging like hot balloons.
▪ Léonie felt her cheeks go red.
▪ She felt her cheeks pale just at the thought of it.
▪ She felt her cheeks flush with a mixture of excitement and anxiety.
flood
▪ A tide of red flooded her cheeks.
flush
▪ My skin crawled; anger flushed my neck and cheeks.
kiss
▪ They kissed her, one cheek each, and departed softly in their pink felt bedroom slippers.
▪ Then he kissed him on the cheek.
▪ He had moved to kiss my mouth, but I had turned my head and he had kissed my cheek.
▪ He kissed her on the cheek and went to his bedroom.
▪ The chorus girls kissed him on the cheek for gratitude and the men smiled and said thank you.
▪ I was escorted to my hotel by Hansi and he kissed my cheek.
▪ Parr, in grey slacks and sports jacket, kissed her on the cheek and came into the kitchen.
peck
▪ He pecked her on the cheek.
pinch
▪ She reached over and pinched his cheeks.
▪ Then he shook Changez's hand twice and pinched his cheeks.
▪ Life has to pinch your cheeks hard to make you happy.
▪ Shop assistants abandon customers to pinch its cheek.
▪ She showed me his face, pinching his cheeks, and offered him.
▪ She demonstrated her dexterity by managing to pinch my cheek while wearing elbow-length white gloves.
▪ He pinched Converse on the cheek.
press
▪ She held Tom close and pressed her cheek to his.
▪ When she inhales, her skin presses upward against his cheek and ear.
▪ She turned her head away from the hissing shadow and pressed her cheek to the wall.
▪ I press my cheek against its cool surface.
▪ He presses her cheek with his palm.
rise
▪ Her eyes dropped once more to the boxer shorts as embarrassed colour rose to her cheeks.
▪ Paula said, a faint rose appearing on her cheeks.
▪ Her imagination conjured up an erotically vivid picture and she knew a hectic flush had risen to her cheeks.
▪ A bit of color rose in her cheeks.
roll
▪ Tears filled her eyes; they rolled down her cheeks and dropped from her chin.
▪ Sometimes when this is whispered in the ears of those near death, tears roll down their cheeks.
▪ Two tears rolled down his cheeks, followed by sniffs and heaves of the narrow chest.
▪ He smiled, sensing an odd happiness welling up in her, even though tears began to roll down her cheeks.
▪ Tears were rolling down my cheeks.
▪ The sweat was rolling down his cheek on to his collar.
▪ Hot, bitter tears rolled down her cheeks, and with them came back the noise of the street.
▪ And at that moment Ed sat up in the bed, looking straight ahead, a tear rolling down his cheek.
rub
▪ Katherine rubbed her cheek where the pain had been.
▪ She reached out to Connie and rubbed his cheek slowly and solemnly.
▪ She pulled one from its hanger and rubbed it against her cheek, her eyes closed.
▪ He pretended to rub the oft-offended cheek, and everyone laughed as Sabina grinned and went back to Mel.
▪ Thought of fat Goldberg shuffling round the glass in the little room, rubbing his unshaven cheeks, wheezing.
▪ The tack adds to this by rubbing the cheek against the sharp teeth.
run
▪ At that distance Adam couldn't see the scar that ran down Kaas' cheek.
▪ I feel warm tears running down my cheeks.
▪ Tears ran down his cheeks, but that was because his eyes couldn't blink.
▪ The tears were running down his cheeks.
▪ I thought I managed very well considering that tears were running down my cheeks most of the time.
▪ Tears must not be allowed to fill their eyes and under no circumstances run down their cheeks.
▪ In the mirror David saw the scratches for the first time: three gouges running down his left cheek.
stream
▪ Tears were streaming down his black cheeks.
▪ She held it in her palm and gazed at it, as if stricken, tears streaming down her cheeks.
stroke
▪ However, by patient wheedling and soft talk I managed to touch her and gently stroked her cheek with one finger.
▪ I stroke her lifeless cheek, and as I do the deep purple bruises seem to fade a little.
▪ She was stroking Louis's cheek and whispering to him reassuringly.
▪ Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage.
▪ When he rolled away from her, she idly pulled a frond of fern and stroked it down his cheek.
touch
▪ She watched his hand approach her face, felt it touch her cheek.
▪ He liked being next to her; he felt all the possibilities returning when he touched her cheek with his finger.
▪ Prominent projections of the bones can become sore to touch, especially the cheek bones.
▪ I reached up and touched his cheek.
▪ He was sleeping with one arm encircling his head, small podge of fingers just touching his cheek.
▪ With his other hand, he touched her cheek.
▪ I lay my head beside him, touching one cheek to him and the other to Clarisa.
turn
▪ When she turned round, her cheeks were fat as balloons, fit to burst.
▪ Maintaining our resolve for peace does not mean, however, turning the other cheek.
▪ The city turns a seamed cheek upward, confides itself to the sound and hazardous construction of a journey by starlight.
▪ No bottling up for me; no turning the other cheek for Walt.
▪ Nicandra threw an arm out over the bedclothes and turned her cheek fiercely into the pillow.
▪ Peregrine responded by turning the other cheek.
▪ Anyway, all I can remember is something about turning the other cheek which I don't believe in.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blood rushes to sb's face/cheeks
give sb a smack on the lips/cheek
hollow eyes/cheeks etc
▪ A well-shaped grey head leaned to peer at her out of concerned hollow eyes, whose colour she could not determine.
▪ Even with all this, the hollow cheeks, the scalp withered, you could still see how handsome Hugh had been.
▪ His hollow eyes have led you to expect something far more ruined.
▪ Its flame showed up her hollow cheeks, the haunted eyes.
▪ The hollow eyes on the pillow were filling with tears.
▪ White-faced, with a three-day-old beard, hollow cheeks and staring eyes, Sikes looked like a ghost.
peck sb on the cheek/forehead etc
▪ He pecked her on the cheek.
puff out your cheeks/chest
▪ Gillespie's cheeks puffed out as he blew into his bent-bell trumpet.
put the roses back in sb's cheeks
sunken cheeks/eyes etc
▪ Black sunken eyes like dried figs.
▪ Fitzosbert's sunken cheeks were liberally rouged and this made his bulbous grey eyes seem even more fish-like.
▪ No bulging rib cages, no collar bones out to here, no sunken eyes or bizarre hipbone bulges.
▪ The flesh had melted from her and she stared at the wall apathetically from sunken eyes.
▪ The grey skin; the red-rimmed eyes; the sunken cheeks.
the colour/blood drains from sb's face/cheeks
with (your) tongue in (your) cheek
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I kissed Mom on the cheek and said good night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A gentle touch on her cheek, then her arm.
▪ Her eyes drifted from his face to the smoothly muscled shoulder near her cheek.
▪ She showed me his face, pinching his cheeks, and offered him.
▪ The light from the window spilled along her cheek and lips, and made a dazzling star in her glass.
▪ The woman stopped crying, although her shoulders continued to heave, and her cheeks were still wet with tears.
▪ There was smeared blood at the corner of his mouth, a grassy bruise on his cheek.
▪ You could toast the bread on your cheeks.
II.verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
give sb a smack on the lips/cheek
hollow eyes/cheeks etc
▪ A well-shaped grey head leaned to peer at her out of concerned hollow eyes, whose colour she could not determine.
▪ Even with all this, the hollow cheeks, the scalp withered, you could still see how handsome Hugh had been.
▪ His hollow eyes have led you to expect something far more ruined.
▪ Its flame showed up her hollow cheeks, the haunted eyes.
▪ The hollow eyes on the pillow were filling with tears.
▪ White-faced, with a three-day-old beard, hollow cheeks and staring eyes, Sikes looked like a ghost.
put the roses back in sb's cheeks
sunken cheeks/eyes etc
▪ Black sunken eyes like dried figs.
▪ Fitzosbert's sunken cheeks were liberally rouged and this made his bulbous grey eyes seem even more fish-like.
▪ No bulging rib cages, no collar bones out to here, no sunken eyes or bizarre hipbone bulges.
▪ The flesh had melted from her and she stared at the wall apathetically from sunken eyes.
▪ The grey skin; the red-rimmed eyes; the sunken cheeks.
with (your) tongue in (your) cheek
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bernadette had been sacked for cheeking the nurse.
▪ They all have to go through it, cheeking the cops.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheek

Cheek \Cheek\ (ch[=e]k), v. t. To be impudent or saucy to. [Slang.]

Cheek

Cheek \Cheek\ (ch[=e]k), n. [OE. cheke, cheoke, AS. ce[`a]ce, ce[`o]ce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak cheek; perh. akin to E. chew, jaw.]

  1. The side of the face below the eye.

  2. The cheek bone. [Obs.]
    --Caucer.

  3. pl. (Mech.) 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.

  4. pl. The branches of a bridle bit.
    --Knight.

  5. (Founding) 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.

  6. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang]

    Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef.

    Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone.

    Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate.

    Cheek pouch (Zo["o]l.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.

    Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block.

    Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest.

    Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth.

    Butment cheek. See under Butment.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cheek

Old English ceace, cece "jaw, jawbone," in late Old English also "the fleshy wall of the mouth." Perhaps from the root of Old English ceowan "chew" (see chew (v.)), or from Proto-Germanic *kaukon (cognates: Middle Low German kake "jaw, jawbone," Middle Dutch kake "jaw," Dutch kaak), not found outside West Germanic.\n

\nWords for "cheek," "jaw," and "chin" tend to run together in IE languages (compare PIE *genw-, source of Greek genus "jaw, cheek," geneion "chin," and English chin); Aristotle considered the chin as the front of the "jaws" and the cheeks as the back of them. The other Old English word for "cheek" was ceafl (see jowl).\n\nA thousand men he [Samson] slow eek with his hond,\n
And had no wepen but an asses cheek.\n

[Chaucer, "Monk's Tale"]

\nIn reference to the buttocks from c.1600. Sense of "insolence" is from 1840, perhaps from a notion akin to that which led to jaw "insolent speech," mouth off, etc. To turn the other cheek is an allusion to Matt. v:39 and Luke vi:29.
Wiktionary
cheek

n. 1 (context anatomy English) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity. 2 (context informal usually in the plural English) A buttock. 3 (context informal English) impudence. 4 (context biology informal English) One of the gena, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon. 5 The pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair. 6 (context in plural English) The branches of a bridle bit. 7 (context metalworking English) The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould. vb. To be impudent towards.

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WordNet
cheek

v. speak impudently to

cheek

  1. n. either side of the face below the eyes

  2. an impudent statement [syn: impudence, impertinence]

  3. either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump [syn: buttock]

  4. impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty" [syn: boldness, nerve, brass, face]

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Wikipedia
Cheek

Cheeks constitute the area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear. "Buccal" means relating to the cheek. In humans, the region is innervated by the buccal nerve. The area between the inside of the cheek and the teeth and gums is called the vestibule or buccal pouch or buccal cavity and forms part of the mouth. In other animals the cheeks may also be referred to as jowls.

Cheek (disambiguation)

The cheek is the area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear.

Cheek or Cheeks may also refer to:

Cheek (rapper)

Jare Henrik Tiihonen (born 22 December 1981), professionally known as Cheek, is a Finnish rapper. To date, he has released nine studio albums.

Cheek (surname)

Cheek is an old family surname from Anglo-Saxon England that predates the Norman invasion. The Cheek family was among the first to immigrate to the US colonies in the early 17th century.

The family crest is a white shield with three red crescents.

Some prominent members of the Cheek family:

  • Robert Lawson Cheek, 1st. Lawyer Knoxville Tennessee
  • Marion Case Cheek, Rear Admiral, USN (aboard the USS Missouri for the Japanese Surrender in WWII)
  • James Richard Cheek, U.S. Ambassador
  • Joey Cheek, Olympic Gold Medal speed skater
  • Joel Owsley Cheek, Maxwell House Coffee founder
  • Sir John Cheke, 16th century tutor to King Edward VI, (and immortalized in a poem by Paradise Lost author, John Milton)
  • Brig. General William Cheek Smartt (Rev. War and War of 1812 soldier, and signer of the 1835 Tennessee State Constitution)
  • Sonara Smart Dodd, Founder of Father's Day, (daughter of Ellen Victoria Cheek-Smart)
  • Catherine Ann Cheek-Ellington, First Lady of Tennessee (during the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King)
  • Rick Cheek, kickboxer
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Usage examples of "cheek".

Perhaps it was merely a reaction from the slaughter in the streets of Addis Ababa, or the memory of the corpses of the sons of the abuna with their eyeballs hanging on their cheeks and their inunature genitals stuffed into their mouths, but over the next few days the desire to see his son became an obsession.

Like the breath of agelong night, she felt the restless stirring of air on her cheek.

He felt her fear burn away in the cleansing light that flowed through her, watched the soft glow come into her cheeks and her hands as she touched Aisling, resting her palm above the wound.

A deep gash across his cheek wept blood, and she gestured him forward as Amani lifted the boy from the table and passed him to his anxious mother.

Tears had started down his cheeks, and Amara swallowed upon seeing them.

June whisked in looking happy with a pink glow on both cheeks and told me we were low in blue lace agate chips and snowflake obsidian and amazonite beads.

The cool wind of the night blows over the vast spaces of the Sahara and touches her cheek, reminding her of the wind that, at Arba, carried fire towards her as she sat before the tent, reminding her of her glorious days of liberty, of the passion that came to her soul like fire in the desert.

As she saw the last time, the lines seemed especially predominant near his chin, cheeks, nose, and forehead areas, running mostly vertical on his forehead, diagonally and horizontally on his nose, vertically and diagonally on his chin and cheekbones, with a strange sort of oval or circular pattern around his eyes.

Her eyes shone with joy as she patted his cheek as though he were a boy and not a weathered soldier.

Then rose the maiden tender, From stool all golden bound, Her waist is trim and slender, Her bosom full and round, Each dimpled cheek encloses An Astrild, roguish sprite, As when on opening roses, The butterflies alight.

She wept and prayed, on good Balder calling, While down her cheeks were the tear-drops falling.

If the men enjoyed the shade of Balintawak, that was OK with him, he remarked with tongue in cheek.

If he got close enough to Banach, he could anesthetize him with a shot to the cheek and drag him away while Magen dealt with Ivor.

Like the horseman, Batu had dark eyes set wide over broad cheeks, a flat nose with flaring nostrils, and a powerful build.

Ruddy cheeks, blue eyes, beards of light brown and yellow and fiery red proclaimed them Englishmen.