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jowl

1
1. the jaw, esp the lower one
2. a cheek, esp a prominent one

jowl

2
1. fatty flesh hanging from the lower jaw
2. a similar fleshy part in animals, such as the wattle of a fowl or the dewlap of a bull
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jowl

The enlarged head or foot of a timber, usually a vertical post; often used to facilitate the joining of other timbers.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Official media in the North have built Kim Jong-un, a jowly and rotund man in his late 20s, into a leader worthy of inheriting the crown, naming him "respected general", "great successor", "outstanding leader" and "supreme commander".
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Jowly Leonid Brezhnev accurately thought he could do business with the then jut-jawed Libyan Colonel.
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"It takes more than three hours to turn me into Queen Victoria, with a prosthetic jowly neck and lots of latex to make me look older.
Bruki said that the eccentric Qaddafi, with his jowly face, bushy hair, colorful clothes and penchant for glamorous female bodyguards, was an easy target for satire.
At such a moment, the prospect of Thompson, jowly as a coon dog, comfy as a hush puppy, holding forth in his bourbon-and-branch-water baritone about the high old times he had growing up in Lawrenceburg might be a relaxing tonic indeed.
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Maleki, an outwardly dour man with a jowly face darkened by a perpetual shadow of a beard, makes a simple case for re-election.
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Both the red setters I saw that day were small and fast, much more like the fast, quick English setters I've long owned and hunted over than the oversized and jowly Irish Setters I've run into elsewhere.
"You know: 'Jowly British journalist interviews long-suffering London landlord about expenses-fiddling MPs he serves'?" "No, 'fraid not," said my producer.
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