different between jowly vs jowl

English

Etymology

jowl +? -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?li

Adjective

jowly (comparative jowlier, superlative jowliest)

1. Having conspicuous jowls.
   • 1864, Richard Burton, A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, London: Tinsley Brothers, 2nd edition, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p. 233,^[1]

     […] his strong jaw renders the face indeed “jowly” rather than oval, consequently the expression is normally hard, though open and not ill-humoured, whilst the smile which comes out of it is pleasant.

   • 1960, “The Old Caricature,” Time, 18 January, 1960,^[2]

     Over the last few years, the liberal Democratic image of Vice President Richard M. Nixon as a jowly, blue-jawed villain with a ski-jump nose has receded in the light of his growing stature and achievements.

   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 61,

     Nick, or Domenico, was sixty or so now and looked it. He was jowly and paunched and was still Italian enough not to give a damn.

Derived terms

• jowliness

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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