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pie-faced, a.
[f. pie n.2 + faced ppl. a.2]
Of a person, having a round countenance or a blank or solemn facial expression; stupid. Now commonly used as a general term of mild abuse (see also quot. 1939). Also transf.
Quot. 1955 may represent pie a.1 rather than pie n.2
1912Dialect Notes III. 585 Pie-faced,..round-faced; flat-faced. 1923Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves x. 112 Did you put that pie-faced infant up to bally-ragging Mr. Bassington-Bassington? 1935― Luck of Bodkins xiv. 147 You don't suppose I care what old pie-faced Gertrude thinks of me, do you? 1938G. Heyer Blunt Instrument x. 183 ‘Pie-faced creature, with a nasty, sly smile.’ ‘The Mona Lisa!’ 1939J. B. Priestley Let People Sing i. 17 He was disturbed again, this time by..a messy, dribbling, pie-faced urchin. 1955Times 29 Aug. 10/7 They spare us those moments of pie-faced solemnity with which comic dramatists here are wont to becloud their activities. |