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cheeked

/t͡ʃiːkt/

cheeked adjective: having some specific type of cheek. Also the simple past and past participle of cheek.

Adjective

cheeked (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds, usually) Having some specific type of cheek.
    • Oh here be rare apples, red-cheeked apples that cry come kiss me: apples, hold your peace, I'll teach you to cry. [Eats one.1599, Thomas Dekker, edited by Oliphant Smeaton, Old Fortunatus, London: J.M. Dent, published 1904, act IV, scene I, page 89
    • […] and perceiving her to be no more than a plain country-wench, so far from being well-favoured, that she was blubber-cheeked, and flat-nosed, he was lost in astonishment, and could not utter a word.1771, Miguel de Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha, translators not credited, London: W. Cowper, Vol. III, p. 87...

Also used as

cheeked is also the simple past and past participle of cheek.

Examples of cheeked in a sentence

  • I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine.1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, New York: Century, published 1907, page 146:
  • You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed.1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter II”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
  • Past rivers and hills she went, and met a bushy-cheeked tiger on the path […]1973, William Buck, transl., Mahabharata, New York: Meridian, published 1993, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 76:
  • The earliest painting that can be attributed to his reign is of a plump, rosy-cheeked adolescent wearing a splendid conical turban and a huge emerald necklace.1983, Mark Zebrowski, Deccani painting, page 73:

Words formed from cheeked

Phrases with cheeked

Words that rhyme with cheeked

Questions about cheeked

What does cheeked mean?
Cheeked means having some specific type of cheek.
How do you use cheeked in a sentence?
I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine.
What part of speech is cheeked?
Cheeked is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cheeked?
Cheeked is pronounced /t͡ʃiːkt/.

Words near cheeked in the dictionary

  1. cheekbone
  2. cheekboned
  3. cheekbones
  4. cheekbony
  5. cheeke
  6. cheeked
  7. cheeked it out
  8. cheeked it through
  9. cheeked up
  10. cheeked up to
  11. cheekee

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