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cheekie

cheekie noun: the cheek (skin on side of the face).

Noun

cheekie (plural cheekies)

  1. (childish) The cheek (skin on side of the face).
    • […] she must truckle to the party in power, so she nodded brightly to the guardian as she approached the baby. “Tiddledyumps!” she cooed. “Ooh, what fine pink cheekies![…]”1917, Munsey’s Magazine, page 294, column 2
    • How about we pinch those fat cheekies, Seidick?1984, Kathryn Seidick, …Or You Can Let Him Go, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 229
  2. (informal) A kiss on the cheek.
    • "Where's my morning kiss?" he would demand of the girls. "No cheekies, now. No cheekies."2014, Joyce Milton, Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Examples of cheekie in a sentence

  • I rubbed the light, tinted cream on my cheekies and down my nose.1994, Sassy, page 38:
  • Cheekies so chubby and feeties so fatty that I feared total strangers would be unable to resist eating her up when they passed by on the street.1998, Lee Potts, Falling Flesh Just Ahead and Other Signs on the Road Toward Midlife, Longstreet Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
  • Sometimes I remind myself of one of those overbearing aunties who kiss and cuddle and pinch the cheekies and speak with puckered lips and wide eyes and Christ, I must look obnoxious.2008, Rebecca Woolf, Rockabye: From Wild to Child, Seal Press, →ISBN:
  • Her face is soft (her cute cheekies) and warm.2008, Joseph E. Hill, The Irish Rose, B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 279:

Forms of cheekie

pluralcheekies

Origin of cheekie

From cheek + -ie.

Questions about cheekie

What does cheekie mean?
Cheekie means the cheek (skin on side of the face).
How do you use cheekie in a sentence?
I rubbed the light, tinted cream on my cheekies and down my nose.
What part of speech is cheekie?
Cheekie is a noun.
What is the plural of cheekie?
The plural of cheekie is cheekies.

Words near cheekie in the dictionary

  1. cheekes
  2. cheekful
  3. cheekfuls
  4. cheekguard
  5. cheekguards
  6. cheekie
  7. cheekier
  8. cheekies
  9. cheekiest
  10. cheekily
  11. cheekiness

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