cheeked
/t͡ʃiːkt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of cheek
Example Sentences
- "Oh here be rare apples, red-cheeked apples that cry come kiss me: apples, hold your peace, I'll teach you to cry. [Eats one."
- "1771, Miguel de Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha, translators not credited, London: W. Cowper, Vol. III, p. 87, https://books.google.ca/books?id=v80ZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false […] and perceiving her to be no more than a plain country-wench, so far from being well-favoured, that she was blubber-cheeked, and flat-nosed, he was lost in astonishment, and could not utter a word."
- "I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine."
- "Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. You will suffer horribly...."
- "Past rivers and hills she went, and met a bushy-cheeked tiger on the path […]"
- "The earliest painting that can be attributed to his reign is of a plump, rosy-cheeked adolescent wearing a splendid conical turban and a huge emerald necklace."