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cheek in this sense is attested as both a verb and a noun from 1840:
n., colloq. a. Insolence in speaking to any one; ‘jaw’. Phr. to give cheek: = cheek v.
v., colloq. To address ‘cheekily’ or saucily; to speak with cool impudence to, confront audaciously. to cheek it: to face it out, ‘carry it through’.
cheeks, as in buttocks, also seems to have originated in Britain around 1600.
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