pudding face

8.7

A large round face that looks soft and full

noun
/ˈpʊdɪŋ feɪs/

Offensive

: [OFENSIVO] cara regordeta

His pudding face was round and soft, making him look friendly and approachable.

Examples

The portrait captured the man's pudding face with surprising kindness.
She remembered her uncle's pudding face and how it seemed to light up the room.
His pudding face was always red and cheerful, reflecting his good humor.
Look at that pudding face!
She has a lovely pudding face.
Everyone adored her pudding face because it always wore a joyful smile.
The child's pudding face was so cute that it made everyone want to pinch his cheeks.

Synonyms

fat face

vspudding face

4 5.1

A round, chubby face with full cheeks

emphasizes softness and plump texture instead of plain size

pudding-face

vspudding face

Offensive

9.9

A round soft face that looks full and chubby

is the same meaning but written without a hyphen

moonface

vspudding face

Informal

7.9

A round, chubby face that looks like the moon

focuses more on soft fleshy roundness rather than only shape

Antonyms

slim

60 1.0

Thin and with little body fat

angular

15 3.8

Having sharp corners and straight lines rather than smooth curves

How Plump

fat face

4 5.1

pudding face

Offensive

8.7

plump

44 2.7

pudgy

19 4.0

round-faced

2 3.0

Surface Forms

pudding face singular

pudding faces plural

Morphology

pudding + face

This is a simple descriptive compound where the overall meaning — a face that looks or feels like pudding (soft, round, plump) — is directly built from 'pudding' + 'face'. A B1 learner who knows both constituent words can readily infer this metaphorical but compositional meaning without prior exposure.

Etymology

Pudding face comes from a simple picture: people compared a person's face to a soft, round dessert called a pudding. That picture of a 'large, round, and soft' face helps explain why the phrase means a chubby, round face today.