The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to CHEEKS

 

BLIND CHEEKS		The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine arse.
BLUBBER CHEEKS		Large flaccid cheeks, hanging like the fat or blubber of a whale.
CHEEKS		Ask cheeks near cunnyborough; the repartee of a St. Gilse's fair one, who bids you ask her backside, anglice her arse. A like answer is current in France: any one asking the road or distance to Macon, a city near Lyons, would be answered by a French lady of easy virtue, 'Mettez votre nez dans mon cul, & vous serrez dans les Fauxbourgs.'
GILLS		The cheeks. To look rosy about the gills; to have a fresh complexion. To look merry about the gills: to appear cheerful.
LANTHORN-JAWED		Thin-visaged: from their cheeksbeing almost transparent. Or else, lenten jawed; i.e. having the jaws of one emaciated by a too rigid observation of Lent. Dark lanthorn; a servant or agent at court, who receives a bribe for his principal or master.
PLUMPERS		Contrivances said to be formerly worn by old maids, for filling out a pair of shrivelled cheeks.