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Definition of Pudding face
1. Noun. A large fat human face.
Generic synonyms: Countenance, Kisser, Mug, Phiz, Physiognomy, Smiler, Visage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pudding Face
Literary usage of Pudding face
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Budget of Wit and Humour; Or, Morsels of Mirth for the Melancholy: A by William Valentine (1849)
"A man with a pudding face is very powerful at a feast—the bones of a roast turkey
... The pudding face should be washed often; for, owing to its large su- ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1899)
"I think it all .out while I stand, and the pudding-face shopman feel his cheeks
... The pudding-face fool wants no money down, and says it shall arrive in ..."
3. The Japanese Nation: Its Land, Its People, and Its Life, with Special by Inazō Nitobe (1912)
"There are two facial types, the long and the round, or the oval and the "pudding-face,"
as it has been termed. The aristocracy have generally the longer ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"1777. JACKMAN, All tJu World's a Stare, i. 2. How can you extort that d—d PUDDING
FACE of yours to madness ? 1822. SCOTT, Fortunes of Nigel, xxvi. ..."
5. Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful by Uvedale Price (1810)
"I, who have often seen him, know that he is as ugly, if not uglier, than the
other; a squat figure; a complexion like tallow; an unmeaning, pudding face, ..."
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