cheekie

English

Etymology

From cheek ‎ -ie.

Noun

cheekie (plural cheekies)

(childish) The cheek (skin on side of the face).
- 1917, Munsey’s Magazine, page 294, column 2:
  […] she must truckle to the party in power, so she nodded brightly to the guardian as she approached the baby. “Tiddledyumps!” she cooed. “Ooh, what fine pink cheekies! […]”
- 1984, Kathryn Seidick, …Or You Can Let Him Go, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 229:
  How about we pinch those fat cheekies, Seidick?
- 1994, Sassy, page 38:
  I rubbed the light, tinted cream on my cheekies and down my nose.
- 1998, Lee Potts, Falling Flesh Just Ahead and Other Signs on the Road Toward Midlife, Longstreet Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
  Cheekies so chubby and feeties so fatty that I feared total strangers would be unable to resist eating her up when they passed by on the street.
- 2008, Rebecca Woolf, Rockabye: From Wild to Child, Seal Press, →ISBN:
  Sometimes I remind myself of one of those overbearing aunties who kiss and cuddle and pinch the cheekies and speak with puckered lips and wide eyes and Christ, I must look obnoxious.
- 2008, Joseph E. Hill, The Irish Rose, B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 279:
  Her face is soft (her cute cheekies) and warm.
- 2012, Brent Atwater, “I’m Home!”: A Dog’s Never Ending Love Story, →ISBN:
  And can he ever “work” those blue and gold eyes and his gold “cheekies” to get almost anything he wants!
- 2013, Paul Swenson, Slapped!: A Novel Based On a True Story, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 369:
  “It was you who said you wanted to grab his face and pinch his honest little cheekies.”
- 2016, Cathy Lamb, The Language of Sisters, Kensington Books, →ISBN:
  She took hold of my face and kissed both cheeks. “I kiss your cheekies with my love. […]”
- 2019, Lilly Fröhlich, Interview with Rumpelstiltskin Junior, →ISBN, page 14:
  I blushed - one of my easiest exercises. One just had to look at me and I got red cheekies.
(informal) A kiss on the cheek.
- 2014, Joyce Milton, Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh:
  "Where's my morning kiss?" he would demand of the girls. "No cheekies, now. No cheekies."

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