Definition of "jowl" in English

noun

1. The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To throw, dash, or knock.

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. The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.

3. A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts

verb

1. (transitive, dialectal) To knock, bump, strike against; hit, strike; peck at.

2. (transitive, dialectal) To jolt or shake roughly; shake up, mix together.

3. (transitive, dialectal, of the bowels) To rumble.

4. (transitive, dialectal, of a bell) To toll, knell.

noun

1. (dialectal) A blow, bump, knock.

2. (dialectal) The tolling of a bell; knell.