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chitty-face en · NOUN

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1. (derogatory, obsolete) Someone with thin, pinched features.
   • What wants that Chitty-Face with his Nose all a-wry? 1768, Charles de Fieux Mouhy, The Busy-body, Or, The Adventures of Monsieur Bigaud:
   • I stole but a dirty pudding, last day, out of an alms -basket, to give my dog when he was hungry, and the peaking chitty-face page hit me in the teeth with it. 1622, Philip Massinger, Thomas Dekker, The Virgin-Martyr:
   • Come hither, Mall, is none here but we two When didst thou see the starveling school-master? that rat, that shrimp, that spindle-shank, that wren, that sheep-biter, that lean chitty-face, that famine, that lean envy, that all-bones, that bare anatomy, that Jack-a-Lent, that ghost, that shadow, that moon in the wane. 1825, Old English Drama: The second maiden's tragedy, page 39:

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