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† chitty-face Obs.
Also 7 chichie-, chits-, chit-face, 7–8 chittiface.
[Possibly originally F. chicheface thin face, pinched-face (see chichevache), perverted by association with chich, with chit n.1 or n.2, or with chitty.]
1. A term of reproach: thin-face, pinched-face; in later usage, baby-face.
1601Munday Downf. R. Earl of Huntington I iij You halfe-fac't groat, you thick [? thin] cheekt chittiface. 1602J. Cooke Good Wife ii. iii, That leane chittiface, that famine, that leane Enuy, that all bones. 1611Cotgr., Chiche-face, a chichiface, micher, sneake-bill. 1617Minsheu Ductor, Chittiface proprie est facies parua et exigua. 1632Sherwood, A chittie-face, or chichie-face, Ciche-face. 1681Otway Soldier's Fort. iii, Now, now, you little Witch, now you Chitsface. c1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Chittiface, a little puiny Child. 1725New Cant. Dict.
2. attrib. = chitty-faced.
1622Massinger Virg. Mart. ii. i, The peaking chitface page hit me ith' teeth with it [so ed. 1631; ed. 1779and mod. edd. have altered it to chitty-face]. |