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Jows vs Jowl - What's the difference?

jows | jowl |

As nouns the difference between jows and jowl

is that jows is plural of lang=en 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.

jows

English

Noun

(head)

    • jowl

    English

    Alternative forms

    * jole, joll (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) chawl, (ae)).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • 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.
  • the cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To throw, dash, or knock.
  • * Shakespeare
    • How the knave jowls it to the ground.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
    • Derived terms
    * jowly * cheek and jowl * tooth-to-jowl