An archaic or dialectal term for a cheek or the side of the face.
Old English variant of 'cheek,' related to Germanic and Proto-Indo-European roots meaning the side or hollow. This spelling is largely obsolete in modern English.
Old spellings like 'cheke' remind us that English is constantly changing—what looks like a misspelling is actually how real people wrote hundreds of years ago!
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