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dish-face

dish-face noun: a round, flat face (visage).

Noun

dish-face (plural dish-faces)

  1. A round, flat face (visage).
    • He has that boyish, eager smile on his dish face. (I didn't notice the first couple of times I saw him that he was dish-faced. Or maybe the more he homed in on Miriam, the more he stuck out his chin and beetled his brow.)2012, Ellen Douglas, The Rock Cried Out, page 173
    • A dish face is not desirable in the Brittany. A dished or upturned muzzle is considered a fault in the Redbone Coonhound.2013, Edward M. Gilbert Jr, Patricia H. Gilbert, Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology

Forms of dish-face

pluraldish-faces

Questions about dish-face

What does dish-face mean?
Dish-face means a round, flat face (visage).
What part of speech is dish-face?
Dish-face is a noun.
What is the plural of dish-face?
The plural of dish-face is dish-faces.

Words near dish-face in the dictionary

  1. dish up
  2. dish washer
  3. dish washers
  4. dish-cloth
  5. dish-cloths
  6. dish-face
  7. dish-faced
  8. dish-faces
  9. Disha
  10. dishabilitate
  11. dishabilitated

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