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moonface

moonface is the alternative form of moon-face.

Meaning of moon-face

Noun

moon-face (countable and uncountable, plural moon-faces)

  1. A noticeably round face.
    • Her white-powdered moon-face pondered the small mystery for a short time only.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 46
  2. A swollen and rounded face in a non-obese patient, most often associated with Cushing's syndrome or treatment with corticosteroids.
    Synonyms:
    moon facies

Forms of moonface

pluralmoonfaces

Questions about moonface

What is moonface the alternative form of?
Moonface is the alternative form of moon-face.

Words near moonface in the dictionary

  1. Mooneyham
  2. Mooneyhams
  3. Mooneyhan
  4. Mooneyhans
  5. mooneys
  6. moonface
  7. moonfaced
  8. moonfaces
  9. moonfall
  10. moonfish
  11. moonfishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moonface (page history and authors); moon-face (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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