cheeked

[ cheekt ]

adjective

1. having cheeks of the kind indicated (used in combination):

   rosy-cheeked youngsters.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cheeked¹

cheek + -ed ³

Example Sentences

A few weeks later, his son Robert Owen Lehman Jr. says, he received the drawing, a portrait of a rosy cheeked woman with a soft smile, from his father as a holiday gift.

From New York Times

Being cheeked by Messi fans on the internet is probably a fitting end for all our heroes.

From The Guardian

Of course, it helps that the figure doing the desecration was a chubby cheeked Austrian hamster, carefully bobbing across a graveyard on its way to eat a meal of flowers and candle wax.

From The Guardian

We went in and found that every hiker for twenty miles was already there, several of them sitting around a wood stove eating chili or ice cream and looking rosy cheeked and warm and clean.

From Literature

Wrinkled or not, supple cheeked or sagging jowls, every day we live and breathe is always a celebration of our ability to continue thriving.

From New York Times