noun
1 part of the face
ADJECTIVE
▪ flushed , hot , warm
▪ cool
▪ smooth , soft
▪ ashen , pale , pallid
▪ blushing , crimson , pink , red , rosy
▪ hollow , sunken
▪
His red-rimmed eyes and sunken ~s betrayed his lack of sleep.
▪ chipmunk ( AmE ), chubby , plump , puffy ( AmE )
▪ unshaven
▪ bruised
▪ tear-stained , wet
▪
Her ~s were wet with tears.
VERB + CHEEK
▪ brush , caress , dab , dab at , pat , rub , stroke , touch
▪
She dabbed at her ~s with a handkerchief.
▪ kiss , peck
▪ give (sb)
▪
She proffered her ~ to kiss.
▪ press , rest
▪
He rested his ~ on her shoulder.
CHEEK + VERB
▪ blaze , blush , burn , flame , flush , grow hot , redden , warm
▪
He felt his ~s burning with shame.
PREPOSITION
▪ across sb's/the ~
▪
She gave him a sharp slap across his ~.
▪ against sb's ~
▪
She laid her ~ against his.
▪ down sb's ~
▪
A tear slid down her ~.
▪ in sb's ~s
▪
She had a healthy bloom in her ~s.
▪ on sb's/the ~
▪
He kissed her on both ~s and got on the train.
PHRASES
▪ bring the colour/color (back) to sb's ~s
▪ color floods (to) your ~s ( AmE ), the colour/color rises to your ~s , the colour/color rushes to your ~s
▪
Colour/Color flooded to her ~s when she realized she was being watched.
▪
She smiled at him and the colour/color rose to his ~s.
▪ a kiss on the ~ , a peck on the ~
▪
She gave him a peck on the ~ and said goodbye.
2 ( BrE ) lack of respect
ADJECTIVE
▪ awful , barefaced , colossal
▪
It's an awful ~, the way he keeps asking you to lend him money.
VERB + CHEEK
▪ have
▪
He's got a ~, making you wait outside his office.
PHRASES
▪ of all the ~! , what a ~!
▪
He asked you for money? Of all the ~!