"cheekie" meaning in English

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          "text": "[…] she must truckle to the party in power, so she nodded brightly to the guardian as she approached the baby. “Tiddledyumps!” she cooed. “Ooh, what fine pink cheekies![…]”",
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          "ref": "1984, Kathryn Seidick, …Or You Can Let Him Go, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 229:",
          "text": "How about we pinch those fat cheekies, Seidick?",
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          "ref": "1994, Sassy, page 38:",
          "text": "I rubbed the light, tinted cream on my cheekies and down my nose.",
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          "ref": "1998, Lee Potts, Falling Flesh Just Ahead and Other Signs on the Road Toward Midlife, Longstreet Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:",
          "text": "Cheekies so chubby and feeties so fatty that I feared total strangers would be unable to resist eating her up when they passed by on the street.",
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          "ref": "2008, Rebecca Woolf, Rockabye: From Wild to Child, Seal Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Sometimes I remind myself of one of those overbearing aunties who kiss and cuddle and pinch the cheekies and speak with puckered lips and wide eyes and Christ, I must look obnoxious.",
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          "ref": "2008, Joseph E. Hill, The Irish Rose, B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd., →ISBN, page 279:",
          "text": "Her face is soft (her cute cheekies) and warm.",
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          "ref": "2012, Brent Atwater, “I’m Home!”: A Dog’s Never Ending Love Story, →ISBN:",
          "text": "And can he ever “work” those blue and gold eyes and his gold “cheekies” to get almost anything he wants!",
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          "ref": "2013, Paul Swenson, Slapped!: A Novel Based On a True Story, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 369:",
          "text": "“It was you who said you wanted to grab his face and pinch his honest little cheekies.”",
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          "ref": "2016, Cathy Lamb, The Language of Sisters, Kensington Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "She took hold of my face and kissed both cheeks. “I kiss your cheekies with my love.[…]”",
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          "ref": "2019, Lilly Fröhlich, Interview with Rumpelstiltskin Junior, →ISBN, page 14:",
          "text": "I blushed - one of my easiest exercises. One just had to look at me and I got red cheekies.",
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        "The cheek (skin on side of the face)."
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        "(childish) The cheek (skin on side of the face)."
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        "A kiss on the cheek."
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        "(informal) A kiss on the cheek."
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