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.
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Jowl
//d͡ʒəʊl//
Synonyms for "jowl" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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7 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- гуша noun (fold of flesh)
- челюст noun (jaw)
Czech
4 entries- lalok noun (fold of flesh)
- podbradek noun (fold of flesh)
- sanice noun (jaw)
- tvář noun (jaw)
Danish
1 entries- kæbe noun (jaw)
Dutch
1 entries- wang noun (jaw)
Finnish
3 entries- alaleuka noun (jaw)
- leuka noun (jaw)
- leukanahka noun (fold of flesh)
French
4 entries- babine noun (fold of flesh)
- bajoue noun (jaw)
- bajoue noun (fold of flesh)
- joue noun (jaw)
Galician
1 entries- barbada noun (fold of flesh)
Georgian
3 entries- ლოყა noun (fold of flesh)
- ყბა noun (jaw)
- ყბის ძვალი noun (jaw)
German
2 entries- Backe noun (jaw)
- Wange noun (jaw)
Italian
2 entries- guancia noun (jaw)
- mascella noun (jaw)
Russian
1 entries- че́люсть noun (jaw)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- podbradak noun (fold of flesh)
- podvaljak noun (fold of flesh)
- vilica noun (jaw)
- вилица noun (jaw)
Spanish
1 entries- papada noun (fold of flesh)
Swedish
2 entries- käke noun (jaw)
- underkäke (mandible) noun (jaw)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]
Source: wiktionary
That ſkull had a tongue in it, and could ſing once, how the knave iowles it to the ground, as if twere Caines iawbone, that did the firſt murder, this might be the pate of a pollitician, which this aſſe now ore-reaches; one that would circumuent God, might it not?
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