chitty-face

English

Noun

chitty-face (plural chitty-faces)

1. (obsolete, derogatory) Someone with thin, pinched features.
   • 1622, Philip Massinger, Thomas Dekker, The Virgin-Martyr:

     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.

   • 1768, Charles de Fieux Mouhy, The Busy-body, Or, The Adventures of Monsieur Bigaud:

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

   • 1825, Old English Drama: The second maiden's tragedy, page 39:

     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.