Dewlap vs Jowl - What's the difference?
dewlap | jowl |
The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing, or a similar feature on any other animal.
* 1901 – 1902 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
The sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person.
the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
the cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
(obsolete) To throw, dash, or knock.
* Shakespeare
a fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts
As nouns the difference between dewlap and jowl
is that dewlap is the pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing, or a similar feature on any other animal while jowl is the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.As a verb jowl is
to throw, dash, or knock.dewlap
English
Noun
(en noun)- Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
Coordinate terms
* dewclaw - same first root element, "dew"Anagrams
*jowl
English
Alternative forms
* jole, joll (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) chawl, (ae)).Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Verb
(en verb)- How the knave jowls it to the ground.