Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1913 — Really an Old Term. [ARTICLE]

Really an Old Term.

"Cheek" In the sense of Impudence Is an old term. The earliest quotation In Sir James dictionary is from Captain Marryat (1840). But It has lately been found in the sixteenth century records of Galway, in the west of Ireland. The municipal rulers of that fighting city—the “man from Galway” has become proverbial for pluck and readiness to defend the hottest of corners—decreed that any person giving “cheke” to the mayor should “forfeit 100 shillings mad have his body put. Into prison."