baby-facedadj.
/ˈbeɪbɪfeɪst/, U.S. /ˈbeɪbiˌfeɪst/ Having a baby face. Also, of a quality or characteristic: possessed by a person having a baby face. Cf. chitty-faced adj.
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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
1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. ii. i. 278 Their daily Practice of most execrable Uncleannesses, and their Contempt of Women in Comparison of Baby-fac'd Boys.
1747 tr. Mem. Nutrebian Court II. ii. 30 If the prince of Ethiopia should like Gen Zanira she would be..married to him instead of that baby-faced lady.
1786 E. Inchbald Emily Herbert (1787) xii. 70 I see plainly she bridles not a little at the conquest her baby-faced niece has made.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby liv. 536 A baby-faced chit of a girl.
1883 A. Dobson in Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 79/2 That baby-faced beauty.
1959 N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds iv. 64 Baby-faced petulance.
1967 Films in Rev. Mar. 175/2 Her baby-faced wantonness is a saleable commodity, especially in musical comedy.
2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 14 Mar. 32 He is 37, somewhat baby-faced and often quiet, with a smile in the corner of his pale blue eyes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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