Word.ws English Dictionary

cheekfuls

cheekfuls is the plural of cheekful.

Meaning of cheekful

Noun

cheekful (plural cheekfuls or cheeksful)

  1. A partial mouthful, enough to fill one's cheek.
    • I stop at one of the largest of these pools, undress and plunge in. Happily I flounder about, terrifying the minnows, and float on my back and spout cheekfuls of water at the sun.1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 191

Questions about cheekfuls

What is cheekfuls the plural of?
Cheekfuls is the plural of cheekful.

Words near cheekfuls in the dictionary

  1. cheekees
  2. cheeker
  3. cheekers
  4. cheekes
  5. cheekful
  6. cheekfuls
  7. cheekguard
  8. cheekguards
  9. cheekie
  10. cheekier
  11. cheekies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cheekfuls (page history and authors); cheekful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cheekfuls.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cheekfuls. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.