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🧸 A chubby doll 🥪 A Japanese brand 😊 A chubby face
Kewpie

Kewpie

9.9
A person, often a child, with a round chubby baby face
  • noun
  • /ˈkjuːpi/
  • Archaic
: Kewpie
  • Kewpie doll

Examples

  • She was so beautiful with her big brown eyes and kewpie-doll mouth.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • You pointed out the obvious: the big breasts, full hips and thighs, the kewpie doll mouth.

    Academic text (1996)

  • "Inspector Lagrange?" Short black hair framed a slightly roundish Kewpie-doll face: button nose, cherub mouth, dark red lipstick, touch of rouge.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The child with the round face looked like a kewpie as she giggled in her new dress.

  • Everyone said the baby was a little kewpie with her cherubic cheeks and playful smile.

  • With his plump face and bright eyes, he resembled a kewpie in a storybook.

Synonyms

munchkin
vsKewpie
  • Informal
34 7.9

A small, cute child that adults call to show love

describes round cherubic facial plumpness rather than small overall size
poppet
vsKewpie
  • Archaic
9 7.8

A small doll or a name for a sweet child

refers mainly to being affectionate not to facial roundness
dollface
vsKewpie
  • Informal
6 8.2

A friendly name for a woman with a pretty, young face to show affection

is rounder and more babylike in facial shape

Surface Forms

Kewpie singular
Kewpies plural

Etymology

Kewpie comes from a playful change of the name Cupid, the Roman 'little god of love' who is often shown as a chubby baby, so calling someone a Kewpie means they look sweet and baby-like.