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jowly

/jou-lee, joh-/US // ˈdʒaʊ li, ˈdʒoʊ- //

皱巴巴的,皱皱巴巴的,皱皱巴巴,皱巴巴地

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    jowl·i·er, jowl·i·est.

    • : having prominent jowls.

Examples

  • He had a pleasantly jowly face, punctuated by a brushy mustache under his fleshy nose, his pants always fastened to suspenders.

  • It was those grim-faced, jowly white men with the harsh surnames.

  • He is similar to Mike Huckabee in this respect, although Huckabee is even less jowly.

  • Working for the administration is hell on your looks, and at the conference he is even more jowly than usual.

  • We are not spending ourselves into oblivion, as you hear some jowly bloviator say on television every day.

  • By midnight, or a little later, Moro Trimmul and the rest of the veterans will be in the woods near Jowly, around the camp.

  • Of the fifteen hundred gallant cavaliers who had ridden that morning from the camp at Jowly, they were the only survivors.

  • Did any one suspect us when we sang ballads in the ambush at Jowly, and found out what Moro Trimmul wanted to do?

  • At the hall entrance he encountered Leonard's huntsman, an impertinent, bony, jowly loafer whom he had never been able to endure.

  • The sunken orbits of the fat man turned from one to another, his jowly cheeks flapping.