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Webster 1913 Edition


Jowl

Jowl

(joul or jōl)
,
Noun.
[For older
chole
,
chaul
, AS.
ceaft
jaw. Cf.
Chaps
.]
The cheek; the jaw.
[Written also
jole
,
choule
,
chowle
, and
geoule
.]
Cheek by jowl
,
with the cheeks close together; side by side; in close proximity.
“I will go with thee cheek by jole.”
Shak.
“ Sits cheek by jowl.”
Dryden.

Jowl

,
Verb.
T.
To throw, dash, or knock.
[Obs.]
How the knave
jowls
it to the ground.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Jowl

JOWL

,
Noun.
The cheek. [See Jole.]

Definition 2024


jowl

jowl

English

Alternative forms

  • jole, joll (obsolete)

Noun

jowl (plural jowls)

  1. the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      I had lain, therefore, all that time, cheek by jowl with Blackbeard himself, with only a thin shell of tinder wood to keep him from me, and now had thrust my hand into his coffin and plucked away his beard.
  2. the cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
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Verb

jowl (third-person singular simple present jowls, present participle jowling, simple past and past participle jowled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To throw, dash, or knock.
    • Shakespeare
      How the knave jowls it to the ground.

Etymology 2

Middle English cholle (wattle, jowl), from Old English ċeole, ċeolu (throat), from Proto-Germanic *kelǭ (gullet) (compare West Frisian kiel, Dutch keel, German Kehle), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelu- (to swallow) (compare Irish in-gilim (I graze), goile (stomach), Latin gula (throat), gluttīre (to swallow), Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, to swallow, gulp), Greek δέλεαρ (délear, lure), Armenian կլանել (klanel, I swallow), Persian گلو (galû), Hindi गला (galā, neck, throat)).

Noun

jowl (plural jowls)

  1. a fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
  2. cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
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