Jowl

Noun

 * 1) the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
 * 2) * 1898,, 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.
 * 1) the cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.

Noun

 * 1) a fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
 * 2) cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts

Thesaurus
bank, bazoo, beam, border, broadside, chaps, cheek, chop, chops, coast, embouchure, flank, gab, gob, hand, handedness, haunch, hip, jaw, jaws, jowls, kisser, laterality, lips, mandibles, many-sidedness, maw, maxilla, mouth, mug, multilaterality, mush, muzzle, oral cavity, planking, premaxilla, profile, quarter, shore, side, siding, temple, trap, unilaterality, yap

Etymology 1
chawl:, chavel(l): 'jaw', from ċeafl: 'jaw', from  (compare  kevel 'gums', dial. (Flemish) kavel:), variant of *kebran (compare  Kiefer: 'jawbone'), from  (compare Irish gob: 'mouth', Lithuanian žebiu: 'to chew', Czech žábra: 'gills', Avestan zafar: 'mouth').

Etymology 2
cholle: 'fold of flesh hanging beneath the jaw', from ceole: 'throat', from  'throat' (compare West Frisian kiel:, Dutch keel:, German Kehle:), from  'to swallow' (compare Old Irish gelim: 'I swallow', gaile: 'stomach',  gula: 'throat', gluttīre: 'to swallow',  delear 'bait',  klanem 'I swallow',  глотать: 'to swallow, gulp',  گلو:,  गुल: 'throat').

Noun

 * Czech: tvář, podbradek, čelist, lalok, sanice
 * Dutch: wang
 * French:, , bajou
 * German: Wange, Backe
 * Italian: guancia, mascella


 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вилица
 * Roman: vilica
 * Swedish: kind

Noun

 * French: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: подваљак
 * Roman: podvaljak

Derived terms

 * jowly
 * cheek and jowl
 * tooth-to-jowl