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pumpkin-faced

pumpkin-faced adjective: having a large, round face.

Adjective

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

  1. Having a large, round face.
    • "I had some excuse for Bessie Surtees was the prettiest girl in all Newcastle; but Mrs. Sutton was always the same pumpkin-faced thing she is at present!"29 May 1868, The Mercury, Hobart, page 3, column 6
    • He knew all about it, dammit! It was no pleasure for him to have the thing shoved down his neck by every dunderheaded pumpkin-faced noodle in the universe!1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 141

Forms of pumpkin-faced

comparativemore pumpkin-faced
superlativemost pumpkin-faced

Questions about pumpkin-faced

What does pumpkin-faced mean?
Pumpkin-faced means having a large, round face.
What part of speech is pumpkin-faced?
Pumpkin-faced is an adjective.

Words near pumpkin-faced in the dictionary

  1. pumpkin spices
  2. pumpkin spider
  3. pumpkin spiders
  4. pumpkin suit
  5. pumpkin suits
  6. pumpkin-faced
  7. pumpkin-headed
  8. pumpkin-on-a-stick
  9. pumpkin-pie spice
  10. pumpkin-spice latte
  11. pumpkin-spice lattes

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