Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A face with sharp and prominent features; a face like a hatchet.
Examples
“Dick Ostler accordingly made his appearance; — a queer, knowing, shambling animal, with a hatchet-face, a squint, a game-arm, and a limp.”
“You know things are really going well at a company when hatchet-face Henry Kravis and his buyout barbarians snap up a chunk.”
“His hatchet-face softened for a moment, as if he was sorry for her.”
“The true gods guide our blades, Djinar," one man murmured as he passed hatchet-face.”
“But for all that, thought Cadfael, watching the shrewd, lean hatchet-face, he has a pretty accurate idea of what they're here for.”
“The Jek was coal black, his scales glittering in the cold sunlight, his hatchet-face inscrutable.”
“The very boys who had once ridiculed me and poked fun at me and called me hatchet-face now slapped me on the back and said, “I knew you could do it, Elmer.””
“They poked fun at me and called me “hatchet-face.””
“She had a sharp hatchet-face, eyes with the colour of ice in them ... a cold, blue-grey.”
“He have hatchet-face; Ba'teese no like a man with a hatchet-face.”
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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reesetee Old nickname for the Common Puffin. Jan 4, 2008