Forms: α. 4–5 cholle, choll, chol, 7 chowle. β. 6 ioule, 7 iowle, jowle, 9 jole, 7– jowl. [ME. cholle, choll, chol, coincides in sense with OE. ceolur, CHOLLER, a deriv. of same stem as OE. ceolu, ceole, ME. cheole, CHEL throat (cf. OLG. kela, OHG. chela, Du. keel, Ger. kehle throat). But the etymological relation of ME. cholle to these words is difficult to determine; and it does not appear possible to refer it to any OE. type. The 17th c. chowle was a regular development of ME. cholle: cf. bowle, BOWL sb.1 from ME. bolle; but the j forms, which, as in JOWL sb.1, appear late in the 16th c., are not accounted for. See prec., and next.]
The external throat or neck when fat or prominent; the pendulous flesh extending from the chops to the throat of a fat person, forming a ‘double’ chin; the dewlap of cattle; the crop or the wattle of a bird, etc.; = CHOLLER.
α. c. 1320. Sir Beues (MS. A.) 2665. Þar þe dragoun gan ariue … Eiȝte toskes at is mouþ stod out, Þe leste was seuentene ench about, Þe her, þe cholle vnder þe chin. Ibid., 2879. A hitte hem so on þe cholle, And karf ato þe þrote bolle.
c. 1394. P. Pl. Crede, 224. His chyn with a chol lollede As greet as a gos eye growen all of grece.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. i. 234. The chowle or crop adhering unto the lower side of the bill, and so descending by the throat.
β. 1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Cerbiguillo, the necke of a bull, any fat necke or ioule.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 327. Its head is small, clean, and free from flesh about the jaws;… throat free from jowl or dewlap.
1827. D. Johnson, Ind. Field Sports, 25. Jungle fowl…; the cocks are of a black red with large combs and joles.
1868. Atkinson, Cleveland Gloss., Jowl,… 2. The fleshy appendages which, in a fat person, hang down from the jaws, forming, as it were, part of the flesh of the throat.
1871. Napheys, Prev. & Cure Dis., III. vi. 786. The pendulent jowls of the pig.
