fat-faced, a.
[f. fat a. + face + -ed2.]
Having a fat face. a. Of persons. † Also fig. (nonce-use) of land, with allusion to the sense fat a. 9 a, fertile. b. Printing, as fat-faced Egyptian (see fat a. 3).
| 1632 Lithgow Trav. v. 231 The curling playnes of fat⁓fac'd Palestine. 1782 George Bateman ii. 2 A short, thick⁓set, fat-faced man. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge ix, A fat-faced puss she is. 1863 Hawthorne Our Old House (1883) 30 A..fat-faced individual came into my private room. |