cheeked en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /t͡ʃiːkt/
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Meanings
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(in-compounds, not-comparable, usually) Having some specific type of cheek.
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.
1983, Mark Zebrowski, Deccani painting, page 73:Past rivers and hills she went, and met a bushy-cheeked tiger on the path […]
1973, William Buck, transl., Mahabharata, New York: Meridian, published 1993, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 76: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....
1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter II”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC: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.
1599, Thomas Dekker, edited by Oliphant Smeaton, Old Fortunatus, London: J.M. Dent, published 1904, act IV, scene I, page 89:I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine.
1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, New York: Century, published 1907, page 146:1771, 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.
Deriveds
apple-cheeked · golden-cheeked warbler · spiny-cheeked honeyeater · mail-cheeked · blue-cheeked bee-eater · cheeked up · yellow-cheeked tit · northern buffed-cheeked gibbon · white-cheeked honeyeater · rosy-cheeked · silvery-cheeked antshrike
Translations (2)
tr yanaklı (having some specific type of cheek) · fi -poskinen (having some specific type of cheek)