Jowl vs Chin - What's the difference?
jowl | chin |
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
The bottom of a face, especially, the lower jaw or the region below the mouth.
(slang, US) talk.
(slang, British) A falsehood.
(boxing, uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the face without being knocked out.
(slang) To talk.
To perform a chin-up.
(UK) To punch (someone)'s chin (part of the body).
As nouns the difference between jowl and chin
is that jowl is the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible while chin is the bottom of a face, especially, the lower jaw or the region below the mouth.As verbs the difference between jowl and chin
is that jowl is to throw, dash, or knock while chin is to talk.As a proper noun Chin is
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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.
