Merriam-Webster

Usually slack flesh (as a dewlap, wattle, or the pendulous part of a double chin) associated with the cheeks, lower jaw, or throat : jaw; especially : mandible : one of the lateral halves of the mandible : cheek : the cheek meat of a hog (a dinner of boiled jowl)

1811 Vulgar Tongue

The cheek. Cheek by jowl; close together, or cheek to cheek. My eyes how the cull sucked the blowen’s jowl; he kissed the wench handsomely.

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