chitty-face

plural chitty-faces

1. derogatoryobsoleteSomeone with thin, pinched features.

   What wants that Chitty-Face with his Nose all a-wry?

   1768, Charles de Fieux Mouhy, The Busy-body, Or, The Adventures of Monsieur Bigaud

   2 more examples

   I stole but a dirty pudding, last day, out of an alms -basket, to give my dog when he was hungry, and the peaking chitty-face page hit me in the teeth with it.

   1622, Philip Massinger, Thomas Dekker, The Virgin-Martyr

   Come hither, Mall, is none here but we two When didst thou see the starveling school-master? that rat, that shrimp, that spindle-shank, that wren, that sheep-biter, that lean chitty-face, that famine, that lean envy, that all-bones, that bare anatomy, that Jack-a-Lent, that ghost, that shadow, that moon in the wane.

   1825, Old English Drama: The second maiden's tragedy, page 39