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dish-faced

dish-faced adjective: of a person: having a round, flat face.

Adjective

dish-faced (comparative more dish-faced, superlative most dish-faced)

  1. Of a person: having a round, flat face.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    platter-faced

Synonyms of dish-faced

Forms of dish-faced

comparativemore dish-faced
superlativemost dish-faced

Questions about dish-faced

What does dish-faced mean?
Dish-faced means of a person: having a round, flat face.
What part of speech is dish-faced?
Dish-faced is an adjective.

Words near dish-faced in the dictionary

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

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