pouchy
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6.3
- adjective
- /ˈpaʊtʃi/
:
hinchado
- His eyes were always disappearing in pouchy slabs of skin.
- pouchy eyes
- pouchy cheeks
- pouchy face
Examples
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The President, smaller and more compact than he seems on TV, strides out from behind his desk and cracks a jowly smile, but his pouchy eyes slither sideways when he limply shakes hands with Phil.
Fiction book (2001) -
His eyes looked red and pouchy, as though he hadn't been getting much sleep.
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You little pouchy-cheeked rat!
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Tears trickled down his face, and Yuki again noticed how his cheeks had gotten more wrinkled and pouchy in the last three years.
Fiction book (1991) -
"She pursed her cherub lips; almost hidden behind her pouchy cheeks, her eyes gleamed like polished sea beans.
Fiction book (2002) -
"He stepped close to Chemayev, inches away—a wise white monkey with a creased, pouchy face and eyes as active as beetles.
Fiction book (2001) -
Then, as he dug a plastic fork into the unidentifiable stuff on the tray before him, he asked, "If Jamie orders us back, what'll you do?" Craig stared back at him, sad, pouchy ice-blue eyes unwavering.
Fiction book (1999) -
The male, his bellows reverberating out of his pouchy proboscis, great gobs of mucus erupting from his nostrils, rolled his blubbery body into the water.
Academic text (1995) -
I'm for some reason now holding out to him, wordlessly watching me as he steps forward into the light and methodically wraps it around himself, the ragged lower edge skirting sinewy flanks, pouchy gray genitals.
Fiction book (1997) -
Tears trickled down his face, and Yuki noticed how his cheeks had gotten more wrinkled and pouchy in the last three years.
Synonyms
51
2.2
Rounded and soft in shape, often filled with air or soft material
Antonyms
How Pouchy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pouchy comes from the common word pouch ('small bag') plus the ending -y meaning 'full of' or 'having'. So something pouchy looks like it has little bags, like a kangaroo's pouch or the soft bags under tired eyes.