EGAVE

jowl

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
  2. verb To throw, dash, or knock.
  3. noun A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
  4. noun The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
  5. noun A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
  6. verb To knock, bump, strike against; hit, strike; peck at.
  7. verb To jolt or shake roughly; shake up, mix together.
  8. verb To rumble.

Similar words

jawbone lower jaw mandible submaxilla mandibula cheek jole chop hog jaw wapper jaw

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Word family

jowls

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