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chitty-face

chitty-face noun: someone with thin, pinched features.

Noun

chitty-face (plural chitty-faces)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete) Someone with thin, pinched features.
    • I stole but a dirty pudding, last day, out of an alms -basket, to give my dog when he was hungry, and the peaking chitty-face page hit me in the teeth with it.1622, Philip Massinger, Thomas Dekker, The Virgin-Martyr
    • What wants that Chitty-Face with his Nose all a-wry?1768, Charles de Fieux Mouhy, The Busy-body, Or, The Adventures of Monsieur Bigaud

Forms of chitty-face

pluralchitty-faces

Questions about chitty-face

What does chitty-face mean?
Chitty-face means someone with thin, pinched features.
What part of speech is chitty-face?
Chitty-face is a noun.
What is the plural of chitty-face?
The plural of chitty-face is chitty-faces.

Words near chitty-face in the dictionary

  1. Chittore
  2. Chittorgarh
  3. Chittum
  4. Chittums
  5. chitty
  6. chitty-face
  7. chitty-faces
  8. Chittys
  9. Chitu
  10. Chitungwiza
  11. chitupa

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