fat face
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5.1
- noun
- /fæt feɪs/
:
cara regordeta
- The cheeks on his fat face turned red when he laughed.
Examples
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- Nice fat face, Hadley.
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Uncle Tikhon, a tall peasant with a fat face and small, drowsy, deep-set eyes, sat behind the counter.
Fiction book (1997) -
- You have a fat face.
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I have a fat face on my wedding day and you... you know it!
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His dark fat face and the sensual mouth, the great curve of the upper lip and the hanging lower one.
Academic text (1998) -
"His hair was the color of straw, his fat face all sunburnt and peeling.
Fiction book (2000) -
They were big women in their forties with fat faces, and their clothes made them look like all their parts were sized too big.
Fiction book (1990) -
"That's it, brothers and sisters!" Pastor Buck's fat face beamed.
Fiction book (1997) -
But he was already at a respectable distance from her, with a servile smirk on his fat face.
Fiction book (2000) -
Rubin's fat face wrinkled into a cherubic smirk.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
A round, chubby face that looks like the moon
A large round face that looks soft and full
Antonyms
How Chubby
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a face that is round and chubby' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'fat' (having excess flesh) with 'face' (the front part of the head). This simple adjective + noun descriptive pattern is cross-linguistically common and therefore a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Fat face gives a simple image: fat means plump and face is the face, so picture full, round cheeks. That's why fat face is used to mean 'round and chubby in appearance'.