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Definition jowl

Etymology 1

From Middle English chawl, chavel (“cheek, jaw”), from Old English ?eafl, from Proto-Germanic *kaflaz (compare Dutch kevels (“jawbones”), Alemannic German Chifel), variant of *kebr? (compare German Kiefer), enlargement of Proto-Germanic *keb? (compare Low German Keve, Keben (“jaw; gill”) (pl.), Rhine Franconian Kife), from Proto-Indo-European *?eb?- (compare Irish gob (“mouth”), Lithuanian ž??bti (“to chew”), Czech žábra (“gills”), Avestan ?????‎ (zafar, “mouth”)).

Noun

jowl (plural jowls)

  1. the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
Verb

jowl (third-person singular simple present jowls, present participle jowling, simple past and past participle jowled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To throw, dash, or knock.

Etymology 2

Middle English cholle (“wattle, jowl”), from Old English ?eole, ?eolu (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *kel? (“gullet”) (compare West Frisian kiel, Dutch keel, German Kehle), from Proto-Indo-European *g?elu- (“to swallow”) (compare Old Irish in·gilid (“to graze”), Irish goile (“stomach”), Latin gula (“throat”), glutti? (“to swallow”), Russian ???????? (glotát?, “to swallow, gulp”), Ancient Greek ?????? (délear, “lure”), Armenian ?????? (klanel, “I swallow”), Persian ???‎ (galû), Hindi ??? (gal?, “neck, throat”)).

Noun

jowl (plural jowls)

  1. a fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
  2. the cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
  3. cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts

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