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Definition of Jowly
1. Adjective. Having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw.
Definition of Jowly
1. Adjective. Having conspicuous jowls. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jowly
1. having prominent jowls [adj JOWLIER, JOWLIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jowly
Literary usage of Jowly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1891)
"... jowly running streams—sometimes attached to the leaves and I of water-plants,
sometimes creeping on the Algre, sometimes •ling freely through the water. ..."
2. Tara by Meadows Taylor, Philip Meadows Taylor (1863)
"So we ran away from jowly—did we not, my son ? and have been travelling about
the country ever since, getting what we can. ..."
3. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Richard Le Gallienne (1897)
"Which I do the rather believe, by comparing the affectionate, loving, jowly,
humble epistles of St. Peter, St. James, and St. John, ..."
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