different between dewlap vs jowl

English

Etymology

Dew, of unknown meaning and origin, + Old English læppa (“a loose hanging piece”)

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?du.læp/, /?dju.læp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?dju?.læp/

Noun

dewlap (plural dewlaps)

1. The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, or a similar feature on any other animal.
   • 1901 – 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

     Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.

2. The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person.
   • 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Midwinter Break', Chapter 2, at p.36:

     He ended up looking at himself in the mirror. His image stared back at him. He was developing a dewlap - a definite dewlap. He waggled under his chin scornfully with his fingers.

Coordinate terms

• dewclaw - same first root element, "dew"

Translations

Anagrams

• pawled

English

Alternative forms

• jole, joll (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: joul, IPA^(key): /d?a?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English chawl, chavel (“cheek, jaw”), from Old English ?eafl, from Proto-West Germanic *kafl.

Noun

jowl (plural jowls)

1. the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     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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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

From 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 ???? (galu), 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

Derived terms

• jowly
• cheek and jowl
• cheek by jowl
• tooth-to-jowl

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