pumpkin-faced

adjective

Having a large, round face.

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Meanings

adjectivepumpkin-faced (comparative more pumpkin-faced, superlative most pumpkin-faced)

comparative more pumpkin-faced · superlative most pumpkin-faced

  1. Having a large, round face.

    "I had some excuse for Bessie Surtees was the prettiest girl in all Newcastle; but Mrs. Sutton was always the same pumpkin-faced thing she is at present!"

    29 May 1868, The Mercury, Hobart, page 3, column 6
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    He knew all about it, dammit! It was no pleasure for him to have the thing shoved down his neck by every dunderheaded pumpkin-faced noodle in the universe!

    1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 141
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APA

pumpkin-faced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pumpkin-faced

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pumpkin-faced,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pumpkin-faced.

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