pudding-faced

adj

pudding-faced

adj
1

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

  • 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:
  • "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:

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