moonfacedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

moon-faced (comparative more moon-faced, superlative most moon-faced)

1. Having a round or moon-shaped face.
   • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 127:

     “Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes! But there’s worse than that.”

   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 233:

     The creased moon-faced Chinese grinned above his glass of beer[.]

   • 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83:

     "I looked at this moon-faced, smooth skinned, slimy fraud, with his patronising smile."

同意語

• pie-faced