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adjectivedish-faced (comparative more dish-faced, superlative most dish-faced)
comparative more dish-faced · superlative most dish-faced
- Of a person: having a round, flat face.
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 173Synonyms: platter-faced
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adjectiveOf a person: having a round, flat face.
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dish-faced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dish-faced
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