Meaning of cheeked | Babel Free

Definitions

Having some specific type of cheek.

in-compounds, not-comparable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“1771, Miguel de Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha, translators not credited, London: W. Cowper, Vol. III, p. 87, https://books.google.ca/books?id=v80ZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false […] 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.”

“I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine.”

“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become⟳ sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. You will suffer⟳ horribly....”

“Past rivers and hills she went, and met a bushy-cheeked tiger on the path […]”

“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.”

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