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jowl·y

 (jou′lē)
adj. jowl·i·er, jowl·i·est
Having heavy or sagging jowls.

jowl′i·ness n.
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jowly

(ˈdʒaʊlɪ)
adj, -lier or -liest
(of a person) having fat cheeks which hang down towards the jaw
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jowl•y

(ˈdʒaʊ li; sometimes ˈdʒoʊ-)

adj. jowl•i•er, jowl•i•est.
having prominent jowls.
[1870–75]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.jowly - having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw
fat - having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
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Translations

jowly

[ˈdʒaʊlɪ] ADJde mejillas caídas
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

jowly

adj to be jowlyHängebacken haben
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Cut to Colman clutching her Bafta and Oscar, however, and all trace of the jowly, lumbering monarch was gone.
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And so what if my souvenir photo shows I have more loose skin around my jowly face nowadays than a reptile shedding its skin.
Yes, he is adorned with jowly prosthetic make-up, but his Oscarwinning performance amounts to much more than just a gimmickfuelled impression.
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Tall, pale-skinned, her black, shoulder-length hair scraped straight back, sometimes pictured with a slight smile, the sister of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, bears only a faint resemblance to her jowly, bristle-haired brother, who has made his isolated country the world's newest nuclear weapons state.
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Early on we meet Kevin Currie, a major part of "The Organization," a guy "in his late forties getting slowly far and jowly." Colgan, a member thereof since he was 18, is now replacing the man formerly Jamieson's hitman, a line Colgan himself "had never crossed." Actually and directly causing the death of another was against his principles, as odd as that may sound, as Colgan is and can be as brutal as necessary.
And that's true literally as well as figuratively, as any oldster like me knows when forced to do Facetime, or, god help us, Skype (not to mention being caught in a shaft of unforgiving daylight or walking past a mirror and wondering who the jowly old trout is - oh, yes, that'll be me).