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the soft real estate where blushes confess what your mouth refuses to.
means Either of the two fleshy sides of the face below the eyes, or — figuratively — bold, impudent disrespect.
from From Old English 'ceace' or 'cece,' meaning jaw or jawbone, the bony architecture that later softened into the fleshy face-side we mean today. The cheeky sense of 'insolence' is a much later figurative leap — to 'give someone cheek' likely echoes other body-part metaphors for boldness (like 'nerve' or 'gall'), the face as the front you show the world when you're being brazen.
- muscle count
- buccinator helps you whistle, suck, and blow
- audacity link
- cheek means nerve in British slang since 1840s
- dimple truth
- dimples are technically a muscle defect
- kiss math
- French cheek kisses range one to four
- blush wiring
- only humans blush from social embarrassment
apples of the cheeks — anatomical term for the rounded prominence of the cheekbones, visible in portraits and medical texts
cheek cell — commonly used in biology classrooms to observe under microscopes, collected by scraping the inside of the mouth