pigface

plural pigfaces · alternative pig-face · alternative pig's-face

1. Any of various mesembryanthemums of the genus Carpobrotus, native to coastal areas of Australia, and producing edible fruits.

   The road cut through sand dunes spread patchily with pigface and tumbleweeds and led obliquely to the sea […]

   1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 124

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   that other fleshy plant, the one called pig-face, had lain across a corner of the cliffs like vivid pink shantung flung across a draper's counter.

   1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 256

   My father was forever trying to tame this lumpen block, buttressing it with rock gardens and rock walls garlanded with pigface, courtesy of my mother.

   2015, Magda Szubanski, Reckoning, Text Publishing, page 52

2. derogatoryinformalTerm of abuse for an ugly person.

   Shut up, pigface!

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   Near-synonym: dogface

   Synonyms: dogface