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# cheek

«cheek» in Mova's school dictionary: **the soft sides of your face below your eyes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cheek, cheeks; cheek — uncountable, rudeness); verb (cheek someone — British, informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your cheeks are the soft sides of your face below your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#m1)

2) Cheek also means rude talk to someone you should respect, especially in British English. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#m2)

3) «What a cheek!» means that was rude or bold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In body and health lessons, cheeks go red when you are cold, hot, shy or embarrassed; hamsters store food in their cheek pouches. In manners lessons, giving cheek (being cheeky) to a teacher or parent is rude. In some cultures people greet with a kiss on the cheek. Phrases: rosy cheeks, cheek to cheek, tongue in cheek, turn the other cheek, a cheeky grin.

### examples

- Her cheeks went red when she was embarrassed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#x1)
- Grandma kissed me on the cheek. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#x2)
- The cold wind made our cheeks pink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#x3)
- A hamster stuffs food in its cheeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#x4)
- Don't give me any cheek, young man! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#x5)
- What a cheek, he took the last biscuit! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#x6)
- He said it tongue in cheek, as a joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#x7)
- She rested her cheek on her hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#x8)
- The king kissed him on both cheeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/#x9)

### note

Countable for the face part: a cheek, two cheeks. The rudeness sense is uncountable and mostly British. Adjective: cheeky (a bit rude but often funny). «Tongue in cheek» means not serious.

### In the corpora

- [His heart thumps, his cheeks go hot, and he shoves the tablet under a cushion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/4/)
- [When you see something upsetting, the body reacts fast: the heart races, the cheeks go hot, you may freeze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/12/)
- [Circular breathing means breathing in through the nose while pushing out air stored in the cheeks, so the sound never stops.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/11/)
- [The joke: cheek gets the biggest punishment, much more than stealing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/29/)
- [A large tear rolls down each of Toad's cheeks, plop! plop!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cheek» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheek/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.