cheek

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 chēk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity. countable,uncountable
    — There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper, / That steals the colours from Bassanio's cheek: / Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world / Could turn so much the constitution / Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!— […]
  2. The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts. countable,informal,plural-normally,uncountable
  3. Impudence. figuratively,informal,uncountable
    — You’ve got some cheek, asking me for money!
  4. One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon. countable,informal,uncountable
  5. One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair. countable,uncountable
    — the cheeks of a vice
  6. One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.; pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down countable,uncountable
  7. The branches of a bridle bit. countable,in-plural,uncountable
  8. Either side of an axehead. countable,uncountable
  9. The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To be impudent towards.
    — Don't cheek me, you little rascal!
  2. To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.
    — Such horses might need to be "cheeked" for a while.
  3. To put or keep something in one’s cheek.
    — The squirrel cheeked some nuts before heading back to its nest.

词形变化

cheeks plural cheeks present,singular,third-person cheeking participle,present cheeked participle,past cheeked past

词汇关系

衍生词
bench cheek booty cheek butment cheek butt-cheek cheek-bone cheek bone cheekbone cheek-by-jowl cheek by jowl cheeked cheeker cheek for chowl cheekful cheek guard cheekie cheekini cheekless cheekpiece cheek plate cheek pouch cheek to cheek cheek to jowl cheek-to-jowl cheek tooth cheeky chock full doorcheek face cheek fixed cheek free cheek slapped cheek syndrome spiny-cheek sleeper tongue firmly in cheek tongue in cheek tongue-in-cheek to one's own cheek tuftedcheek turn the other cheek with one's tongue in one's cheek with tongue in cheek cheek it out cheek it through cheek up cheek up to
相关词
buccal genal

词源

词源 1
From Middle English cheeke, cheke, cheoke, choke, from Old English ċēce, ċēace, ċēoce (“cheek; jaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *kākā, *keukā (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *kēkǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sooke (“cheek”), West Frisian tsjeak (“jaw”), Dutch kaak (“jaw; cheek”), Swedish käke (“jaw; jowl”), Norwegian kjake (“jaw”), Old Norse kók (“mouth; gullet”).
词源 2
From Middle English cheeke, cheke, cheoke, choke, from Old English ċēce, ċēace, ċēoce (“cheek; jaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *kākā, *keukā (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *kēkǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sooke (“cheek”), West Frisian tsjeak (“jaw”), Dutch kaak (“jaw; cheek”), Swedish käke (“jaw; jowl”), Norwegian kjake (“jaw”), Old Norse kók (“mouth; gullet”).
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