Meaning of chitty-face | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone with thin, pinched features.

derogatory, obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“What wants that Chitty-Face with his Nose all a-wry?”

“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.”

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