jowl

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/d͡ʒaʊl/
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/d͡ʒaʊl/ · /d͡ʒəʊl/

Definition of jowl

11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
    “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.”
    “And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]”
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noun

  1. The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
    “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.”
    “And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]”
  2. A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
  3. The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
  4. A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
  5. (dialectal)A blow, bump, knock.
  6. (dialectal)The tolling of a bell; knell.

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To throw, dash, or knock.
    “That ſkull had a tongue in it, and could ſing once, how the knave iowles it to the ground, as if twere Caines iawbone, that did the firſt murder, this might be the pate of a pollitician, which this aſſe now ore-reaches; one that would circumuent God, might it not?”
  2. (dialectal, transitive)To knock, bump, strike against; hit, strike; peck at.
  3. (dialectal, transitive)To jolt or shake roughly; shake up, mix together.
  4. (dialectal, transitive)To rumble.
  5. (dialectal, transitive)To toll, knell.

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Etymology

From Middle English jawle, chawl, chavel (“jaw, jawbone”), from Old English ċeafl (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl (“jaw, cheek”). The modern form (for expected chavel, chawl; still found dialectally) is influenced by jaw, which it is a partial doublet of.

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