pumpkin-faced

adj

pumpkin-faced

adj
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:
  • 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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