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the only face part you'd raise in defiance and lead with into trouble.
means The bony, forward-jutting bottom of your face below the mouth, where your jaw comes to a point.
from From Old English 'cin,' a word that has stood its ground in Germanic tongues — kin to Dutch 'kin' and German 'Kinn.' All of these likely trace back to a Proto-Indo-European root '*ǵenu-' meaning 'jaw' or 'chin,' which also seems to have surfaced, much travelled, in Greek 'genus' (jaw, cheek) and Latin 'gena' (cheek). So when you 'chin up,' you're lifting a word that's been hanging off the bottom of the face for thousands of years.
- jaw anchor
- Holds the mandible, your skull's only movable bone
- human exclusive
- No other primate has a protruding chin
- genioplasty
- Surgeons reshape it for thousands of dollars
- chin-up
- An idiom and an exercise, both about resilience
- cleft cause
- A dimple from bone fusing incompletely before birth
great wall of china — defensive wall stretching 13,171 miles across northern china, built over 2,000 years
bruce lee — martial artist and actor with distinctive protruding chin, iconic 1970s films
dimple in chin — cleft chin genetic trait seen in kirk douglas, cary grant, and others