What does chitty-face mean?
Chitty-face means (obsolete, derogatory) Someone with thin, pinched features..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete, derogatory) Someone with thin, pinched features..
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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Chitty-face means (obsolete, derogatory) Someone with thin, pinched features..
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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.
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