pudding-faced

adjective

Of a person: having a fat, round, smooth face.

Meanings

adjectivepudding-faced (comparative more pudding-faced, superlative most pudding-faced)

comparative more pudding-faced · superlative most pudding-faced

  1. Of a person: having a fat, round, smooth face.

    "I was not pudding-faced!" "Oh, believe me, you were! You hadn't lost your puppy-fat."

    1972, Georgette Heyer, Lady Of Quality, London: The Bodley Head, page 87
    1 more example

    A cowherd was sitting by the roadside eating this food, and as he was one of those pudding-faced, basin-clipped, decent fellows, he cut off two medium great hunks of bread and cheese for them.

    1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 39
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