Adjective: pudding-faced
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more pudding-faced |
| Superlative | most pudding-faced |
Sample Sentences
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A cowherd was sitting by the roadside eating this food, and as he was one of those pudding-faced, basin-clipped, decent fellows, he cut off two medium great hunks of bread and cheese for them. [1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 39:]
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"I was not pudding-faced!" "Oh, believe me, you were! You hadn't lost your puppy-fat." [1972, Georgette Heyer, Lady Of Quality, London: The Bodley Head, page 87:]
Adjectives inflected like pudding-faced
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology