单词 | dough-faced |
释义 | dough-facedadj. 1. Having or characterized by a pale, plump, or bloated face or complexion. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1773 R. Holloway Rat-trap 136 Away with such pusillanimous dough-faced, half-coddled timidity. 1792 ‘P. Pindar’ Tears of St. Margaret (new ed.) p. i The dough-fac'd spectres crowded forth. 1866 Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 263/1 Two pupils were got—dough-faced foolish youths. 1893 W. C. Russell Emigrant Ship 141 A tall, fair, dough-faced girl with amber hair, and pale blue eyes. 1910 New Outlook 10 Sept. 82/2 The baby, eighteen months old, appeared sickly, dough-faced, and flabby. 2011 J. Bradley You Believers 360 The other guard, a pasty, dough-faced kid, spat his chew to the ground. 2. U.S. Politics. Before or during the American Civil War (1861–5): of the character of a dough face (see dough face n. 3); supportive of or sympathetic to the interests of the Southern states. Now rare (historical in later use). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [adjective] > favouring specific principles or policies federal1787 anti-federal1788 rep1812 dough-faced1820 republican1854 hunkerish1857 unreconstructed1865 reservationist1919 America First1925 McCarthyite1952 1820 N.-Y. Columbian 23 May One of the ‘Dough faced’ representatives in Congress from New-Jersey writes..to explain the reasons for his vote on the Question of extending slavery into the new state of Missouri. 1848 N.Y. Commerc. Advertiser 6 June Two-thirds of the Senate were dough-faced. 1870 N.Y. Times 24 Feb. 4/4 We had suffered so many humiliations from the unresisted violence of Southern men,—we were so weary with the yielding, dough-faced representatives. 2014 W. A. Blair With Malice toward Some ii. 42 A dough-faced president like Buchanan..seemed..to be more interested in placating the South than saving the Union. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1773 |
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