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jowls

jowls is the plural of jowl.

Meaning of jowl

Noun (1)

jowl (plural jowls)

  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.[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC

Noun (2)

jowl (plural jowls)

  1. A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
  2. The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
  3. A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts

Noun (3)

jowl (plural jowls)

  1. (dialectal) A blow, bump, knock.
  2. (dialectal) The tolling of a bell; knell.

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Questions about jowls

What is jowls the plural of?
Jowls is the plural of jowl.

Words near jowls in the dictionary

  1. jowlish
  2. jowlop
  3. jowloped
  4. jowlopped
  5. jowlops
  6. jowls
  7. jowly
  8. jows
  9. jowser
  10. jowsers
  11. jowster

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