Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pimply-faced.
- Having a childish face; baby-faced.
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Examples
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Buda with my single rapier, and shall a chitty-faced, beggarly Scots lordling, speak of me and a window in the same breath? —
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'It is queer how she thinks of him,' reflected Martin: 'the blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe: yet she is but a' chitty-faced creature, 'as my mother would say.
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And shall I now be browbeaten by a chitty-faced girl?
Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796
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"I have confronted twenty crooked sabres at Buda with my single rapier, and shall a chitty-faced, beggarly Scots lordling, speak of me and a window in the same breath?
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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