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Old English cēace
cheek (plural cheeks)
- (anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
- (informal, usually in the plural) A buttock.
- (informal) Impudence.
- You’ve got some cheek, asking me for money!
- (biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
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part of face
- Afrikaans: wang (af)
- Arabic: خد (ar) (xadd) m, وجنة (ar) (wajna) f
- Egyptian Arabic: خد (xadd) m
- Armenian: թուշ (hy) (t’uš), այտ (hy) (ayt)
- Aromanian: maste (rup), bucã (rup) f
- Azeri: yanaq (az)
- Belarusian: шчака (be) (ščaká) f
- Bengali: গাল (bn) (gal)
- Bulgarian: буза (bg) (búza) f, страна (bg) (strana) f
- Catalan: galta (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 臉頰 (cmn), 脸颊 (cmn) (liǎnjiá), 腮 (cmn) (sāi), 腮幫子 (cmn), 腮帮子 (cmn) (sāibāngzi), 臉蛋 (cmn), 脸蛋 (cmn) (liǎndàn), 臉蛋子 (cmn), 脸蛋子 (cmn) (liǎndànzi), 面頰 (cmn), 面颊 (cmn) (miànjiá), 臉皮 (cmn), 脸皮 (cmn) (liǎnpí), 頰 (cmn), 颊 (cmn) (jiá), 兩頰 (cmn), 两颊 (cmn) (liǎngjiá)
- Coptic: ⲟⲩⲟϫⲓ (uod͡ʒi) f
- Cree: mikwaskonew (cr)
- Czech: líčko (cs) n
- Danish: kind (da) c
- Dutch: wang (nl) f
- Esperanto: vango (eo)
- Estonian: põsk (et)
- Finnish: poski (fi)
- French: joue (fr) f
- Georgian: ლოყა (ka) (loqa)
- German: Wange f, Backe f (informal)
- Greek: μάγουλο (el) (mágoulo) n
- Gujarati: ગાલ (gu) (gāla)
- Guugu Yimidhirr: nhumbul, gaman
- Hawaiian: pāpālina
- Hebrew: לחי (he) (lekhi) m
- Hindi: गाल (hi) (gāl) m
- Ido: vango (io)
- Italian: guancia (it) f
- Japanese: 頬 (ja) (ほほ, hoho; ほお, hoo), (colloquial) ほっぺた (ja) (hoppeta)
- Kazakh: бет (kk) (bet)
- Khmer: កំភ្លៀងសត្វ (km) (kɑmpliengsat), ថ្ពាល់ (km) (tpoal)
- Korean: 볼 (ko) (bol), 뺨 (ko) (ppyam)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: gep f, alek f
- Sorani: گووپ
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- Kyrgyz: бет (ky) (bet)
- Lao: ແກ້ມ (lo) (kǣm)
- Latgalian: byuds m
- Latin: gena (la) f, bucca (la)
- Latvian: vaigs (lv) m
- Lithuanian: skruostas (lt)
- Luxembourgish: Bak (lb) m
- Macedonian: образ (mk) (óbraz) m
- Malay: pipi (ms)
- Mongolian: хацар (mn) (hatsar)
- Ottoman Turkish: يݣاق (yañaq), يناق (yanaq), خد (hadd), رخ (ruh)
- Persian: گونه (fa) (gune), لپ (fa) (lop)
- Polish: policzek (pl) m
- Portuguese: bochecha (pt) f
- Romanian: obraz (ro), bucă (ro) f
- Russian: щека (ru) (ščeká) f
- Scottish Gaelic: gruaidh f, pluic (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: образ (sh) m
- Roman: obraz (sh) m
- Slovak: tvár (sk) f, líce (sk) n
- Slovene: lice (sl) n
- Sotho: lerama (st)
- Spanish: mejilla (es) f, cacha (es) f, cachete (es) f
- Swedish: kind (sv) c
- Tagalog: pisngi (tl)
- Tajik: гуна (tg) (guna)
- Taos: t’àmų́na
- Tatar: яңак (tt) (yañaq)
- Telugu: చెంప (cheMpa)
- Thai: แก้ม (th) (gâem)
- Turkish: yanak (tr)
- Turkmen: ýaňak (tk)
- Ukrainian: щока (uk) (ščoká) f
- Urdu: گال (ur) (gāl) m
- Uyghur: مەڭز (ug) (mengz)
- Vietnamese: má (vi)
- Volapük: cüg (vo)
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cheek (third-person singular simple present cheeks, present participle cheeking, simple past and past participle cheeked)
- To be impudent towards.
- Don't cheek me, you little rascal!