Home › Words › C › cheekfulcheekfulcheekful means A partial mouthful, enough to fill one's cheek.EtymologyFrom cheek + -ful.nounA partial mouthful, enough to fill one's cheek.e.g.“I stop at one of the largest of these pools, undress and plunge in. Happily I flounder about, terrifying the minnows, and float on my back and spout cheekfuls of water at the sun.” — 1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 191:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.gobful 70% match — A mouthful. vs cheekful →faceful 69% match — An amount that fills or covers the face. vs cheekful →throatful 69% match — Enough to fill the throat. vs cheekful →chinful 66% match — An amount that covers the chin. vs cheekful →cheekie 66% match — The cheek (skin on side of the face). vs cheekful →snoutful 65% match — Enough to fill one's snout; a noseful. vs cheekful →bellyful 65% match — Enough to fill one's belly; a large portion of food eaten. vs cheekful →crotchful 64% match — An amount sufficient to fill a person's crotch. vs cheekful →