cheek

cheek is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The side of the face below the eye. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The side of the face below the eye.
2. noun. The cheek bone.
3. noun. 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. noun. The branches of a bridle bit.
5. noun. 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. noun. Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.
7. transitive verb. To be impudent or saucy to.
8. noun. impudent aggressiveness

   "I couldn't believe her boldness"

   "he had the effrontery to question my honesty"

   Synonyms: boldness, brass, face, nerve

9. noun. either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump

   Synonyms: buttock

10. noun. either side of the face below the eyes
11. noun. an impudent statement

    Synonyms: impertinence, impudence

12. verb. speak impudently to

Synonyms

boldness, brass, face, nerve, buttock, impertinence, impudence

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cheek:

cheke, keech

Common word forms

cheeks, cheeked, cheeker, cheekful, cheeking, cheekless

Words from these letters

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