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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In printing, same as heavy face.

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Examples

  • Later in his career, he developed the classic fat-face bad-complexion look of a steroid user.

    Shayana Kadidal: Scattered Preliminary Observations on the Mitchell Steroids Report 2008

  • And she called her another time fat-face, and womaned her most violently.

    Pamela 2006

  • Me catchee big manacou byme-bye; an 'dat heap betterer dan nasty fat-face' guana.

    The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

  • Then, turning towards the Bagman: "Drive on, fat-face!" said he, "and sharp's the word."

    The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • And she called her another time fat-face, and womaned her most violently.

    Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725

  • I can't stop looking at his Lex Luthor, who looks like the old Silver Age Luthor from the neck up, as if he's gotten that sort of puffy, fat-face look that some Holywood actors get when they reach a certain age, and all the Ethan Van Sciver-level of detail he and Alamy pack into the faces of the more monstrous characters.

    Every Day Is Like Wednesday Caleb 2010

  • I can't stop looking at his Lex Luthor, who looks like the old Silver Age Luthor from the neck up, as if he's gotten that sort of puffy, fat-face look that some Holywood actors get when they reach a certain age, and all the Ethan Van Sciver-level of detail he and Alamy pack into the faces of the more monstrous characters.

    Every Day Is Like Wednesday Caleb 2010

  • a minute ago -- 19, fat-face, raspy voice, pert ways, the self-complacency of God; and with it all a silly laugh (embarrassed) which kept breaking out through her chatter all along, whereas there was no call for it, for she said nothing that was funny.

    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) Mark Twain 1872

  • a minute ago -- 19, fat-face, raspy voice, pert ways, the self-complacency of God; and with it all a silly laugh (embarrassed) which kept breaking out through her chatter all along, whereas there was no call for it, for she said nothing that was funny.

    Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

  • "You've made the whole world dirty, you fat-face, and yet I haven't said anything to you.

    Seven Who Were Hanged Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

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