transcription, транскрипция: [ tʃi:k ]
( cheeks)
1.
Your cheeks are the sides of your face below your eyes.
Tears were running down her cheeks...
She kissed him lightly on both cheeks.
N-COUNT
• -cheeked
...rosy-cheeked children.
COMB in ADJ
2.
You say that someone has a cheek when you are annoyed or shocked at something unreasonable that they have done. ( INFORMAL )
I’m amazed they had the cheek to ask in the first place...
I still think it’s a bit of a cheek sending a voucher rather than a refund...
The cheek of it, lying to me like that!
N-SING : also no det , oft the N to-inf
3.
If you turn the other cheek when someone harms or insults you, you do not harm or insult them in return.
PHRASE : V inflects
4.
cheek by jowl: see jowl