Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See jowl, 2.
Examples
“The neighbouring tapster, who before would beckon you over to a savoury bit of ox-cheek in the morning, give it to you gratis, and only score you up for the liquor, immediately after you were packed off in disgrace, carried a petition to your master to be paid out of your wages, whereof not a farthing was due, and then pursued you with bailiffs into every blind cellar.”
“One ox-cheek, properly managed, will, by attending to the foregoing instructions, furnish an ample quantity of substantial and nutritious food, equal to the wants of a large family, for three days 'consumption.”
“She was very hospitable, gave me a dinner of ox-cheek with great good will, accepting only of a pot of ale in return; and I thought myself fixed till Tuesday should come.”
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
“His Common-Place Book contains receipts for nourishing soups made of rice and peas and flavoured with ox-cheek.”
“She was very hospitable, gave me a dinner of ox-cheek with great good-will, accepting only of a pot of ale in return; and I thought myself fixed till Tuesday should come.”
“I am very fond of experimental housekeeping, such as having an ox-cheek now and then; I shall have one next week, and I mean to have some little dumplings put into it, that I may fancy myself at Godmersham.”
“She was very hospitable, gave me a dinner of ox-cheek with great good will, accepting only a pot of ale in return; and I thought myself fixed till Tuesday should come.”
“We should be thinking fondly of them, potted ox-cheek, brown shrimp, rabbit and haddock pepper the menus of every Mod Brit restaurant in the country - achingly fashionable statements of thrift and authenticity.”
“McMaster anthropologists are planning to continue the probe by making their own supply of ox-cheek soup and canning it using Victorian-era methods.”
“Researchers from McMaster University in Hamilton and Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum - which had the historic tin of ox-cheek soup in its collection - performed tests on the can and its contents to try to confirm a controversial theory about the ill-fated polar voyage of the British ships Terror and Erebus in the late 1840s.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ox-cheek’.
-
Wattle Words
Who knew there were so many?
caruncle, snotter, wattle, comb, crest, cockscomb, coxcomb, snood, beak-wattle, gill, jewlap, jellop and 21 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ox-cheek.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.