What does dish-faced mean?

dish-faced

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

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"He has that boyish, eager smile on his dish face. (I didn't notice the first couple of times I saw him that he was dish-faced. Or maybe the more he homed in on Miriam, the more he stuck out his chin and beetled his brow.)"

more dish-faced (comparative) most dish-faced (superlative)

dish-face

dish-face

platter-faced

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