cheek 1 W3 / tʃik / 名词

1 [可数名词] the soft round part of your face below each of your eyes :

Lucy stretched up to kiss his cheek.

Billy had rosy cheeks and blue eyes.

her tear-stained cheeks

Julie’s cheeks flushed with pleasure at the compliment.

red-cheeked/hollow-cheeked/rosy-cheeked etc

a red-cheeked plump old fellow

2 [单数形式，不可数] British English disrespectful or rude behaviour, especially towards someone in a position of authority :

I’ve had enough of your cheek.

have the cheek to do something

He had the cheek to make personal remarks and expect no reaction.

She’s got a cheek ; she just goes on till she gets what she wants.

It’s a bit of a cheek , asking me for money.

What a cheek! Of course I read the instructions!

3 cheek by jowl (with somebody/something) very close to someone or something else :

an expensive French restaurant cheek by jowl with a cheap clothes shop

4 turn the other cheek to deliberately avoid reacting in an angry or violent way when someone has hurt or upset you

5 cheek to cheek if two people dance cheek to cheek, they dance very close to each other in a romantic way

6 [可数名词] informal one of the two soft fleshy parts of your bottom 同义词 buttock

→ tongue in cheek at tongue 1 ( 6 ) , → tongue-in-cheek