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jowl
/dʒaʊl/
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What does jowl mean?
noun
- The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
- A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
- The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
More meanings (8)
noun
- A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
- A blow, bump, knock.
- The tolling of a bell; knell.
verb
- To knock, bump, strike against; hit, strike; peck at.
- To jolt or shake roughly; shake up, mix together.
- To rumble.
- To toll, knell.
- (obsolete) To throw, dash, or knock.
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IPA pronunciation
/dʒaʊl/
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Pieces of both ears were lacking, one eye was temporarily out of repair, and one jowl ludicrously swollen.
Karáy was a shaggy old dog with a hanging jowl, famous for having tackled a big wolf unaided.
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He was a portly man, who held his head back so that his face seemed all jowl and mouth and sandy chin-whisker.
“I’ll jowl your head for impudence,” said Mrs. Morel, and she tied the strings of the black bonnet valiantly under her chin.
Then the heavy shoulder, the dewlap, and jowl of the Southern Hound had been got rid of, and the coat had been somewhat altered.