different between jow vs jowl

English

Noun

jow (plural jows)

1. (historical) A pre-metric unit of length in India, equal to approximately a quarter of an inch

Middle English

Noun

jow

1. Alternative form of Jew

Scots

Verb

jow (third-person singular present jows, present participle jowin, past jowt, past participle jowt)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To ring or toll (a bell).

Noun

jow (plural jows)

1. A stroke of a bell.

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.

Translations

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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