Chitty-face

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone with thin, pinched features. derogatory, obsolete

    "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."

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"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."

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