dish-face

noun

A round, flat face (visage).

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

noundish-face (plural dish-faces)

plural dish-faces

  1. A round, flat face (visage).

    A dish face is not desirable in the Brittany. A dished or upturned muzzle is considered a fault in the Redbone Coonhound.

    2013, Edward M. Gilbert Jr, Patricia H. Gilbert, Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology
    1 more example

    He has that boyish, eager smile on his dish face. (I didn't notice the first couple of times I saw him that he was dish-faced. Or maybe the more he homed in on Miriam, the more he stuck out his chin and beetled his brow.)

    2012, Ellen Douglas, The Rock Cried Out, page 173
Cite this entry
APA

dish-face. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dish-face

MLA

“dish-face.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dish-face. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dish-face,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dish-face.

Source: dish-face on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.