Dictionary

moon-faced en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Having a round or moon-shaped face.
   • “Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes! But there’s worse than that.” 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 127:
   • "I looked at this moon-faced, smooth skinned, slimy fraud, with his patronising smile." 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83:
   • The creased moon-faced Chinese grinned above his glass of beer[.] 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 233:

Forms

Synonyms

pie-faced

Translations (2)

bg кръглолик (having a round face) · mi pahananui (having a round face)