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multichinned

multichinned adjective: having multiple chins.

Adjective

multichinned (comparative more multichinned, superlative most multichinned)

  1. Having multiple chins.
    • The picture showed the group, a gurning, multichinned James looking like a melonhead in the foreground, dressed in formal evening-wear and cummerbunds. How the fuck had they got hold of those pictures? The boys looked like a cabaret band. It was bad. It was very bad.1999, Kevin Sampson, Powder: An Everyday Story of Rock 'N' Roll Folk, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 477
    • It's the unsmiling face of a balding, gray-haired, multichinned man with sizeable gold-rimmed glasses.2004, Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 116

Forms of multichinned

comparativemore multichinned
superlativemost multichinned

Origin of multichinned

From multi- + chinned.

Questions about multichinned

What does multichinned mean?
Multichinned means having multiple chins.
What part of speech is multichinned?
Multichinned is an adjective.

Words near multichinned in the dictionary

  1. multichiasmatic
  2. multichimera
  3. multichimeras
  4. multichine
  5. multichines
  6. multichinned
  7. multichip
  8. multichoice
  9. multichoke
  10. multichord
  11. multichorionic

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