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chitty-faces

chitty-faces is the plural of chitty-face.

Meaning of chitty-face

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

Questions about chitty-faces

What is chitty-faces the plural of?
Chitty-faces is the plural of chitty-face.

Words near chitty-faces in the dictionary

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

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