butterface
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology 1
Contraction of "but her face" (as in: "Everything about her is great, ... but her face.").
[edit] Noun
butterface (plural butterfaces)
- (slang) A woman who has an attractive body but less attractive facial features.
- 2004, Amy Sohn, “The need to know and the fear of knowing”, in My Old Man[1], New York: Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0743271661, page 106:
- Her friend had a hot figure and a butterface — great body, but her face — and they were talking about Greyhound's most recent dating fiasco.
- 2010, Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere[2], New York: HarperCollins, ISBN 9780061706554, page 76:
- Her face wasn't quite as pretty as he had hoped — Earl, the other mechanic back at his father's place called this kind of girl a Butterface...
- 2004, Amy Sohn, “The need to know and the fear of knowing”, in My Old Man[1], New York: Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0743271661, page 106:
[edit] Etymology 2
butter + face, influenced by the above
[edit] Noun
butterface (plural butterfaces)
- A person with mushy, unattractive facial features.
- I love you, dude, but you're such a butterface I can hardly look at you.
- The face of an unattractive person.
- I can't even look at him, he's got such a butterface.
