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pudding-faced

pudding-faced adjective: of a person: having a fat, round, smooth face.

Adjective

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

  1. Of a person: having a fat, round, smooth face.
    • A cowherd was sitting by the roadside eating this food, and as he was one of those pudding-faced, basin-clipped, decent fellows, he cut off two medium great hunks of bread and cheese for them.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 39
    • "I was not pudding-faced!" "Oh, believe me, you were! You hadn't lost your puppy-fat."1972, Georgette Heyer, Lady Of Quality, London: The Bodley Head, page 87

Forms of pudding-faced

comparativemore pudding-faced
superlativemost pudding-faced

Questions about pudding-faced

What does pudding-faced mean?
Pudding-faced means of a person: having a fat, round, smooth face.
What part of speech is pudding-faced?
Pudding-faced is an adjective.

Words near pudding-faced in the dictionary

  1. pudding-basins
  2. pudding-bowl
  3. pudding-bowls
  4. pudding-brain
  5. pudding-brained
  6. pudding-faced
  7. pudding-headed
  8. pudding-pipe tree
  9. pudding-pipe trees
  10. pudding-sleeve
  11. pudding-sleeves

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