chinful

noun

Etymology

From chin + -ful.

  1. inherited from *ǵénus
  2. inherited from *kinnuz
  3. inherited from *kinnu
  4. inherited from ċinn
  5. inherited from chyn
  6. suffixed as chinful — “chin + ful

Definitions

  1. An amount that covers the chin.

    • They semi-roughed it near Dwyer, Ontario and came home with a deer, some tall tales about life in the wilds and four chinsful of whiskers.
    • He had shoulder length brown hair, a speech defect and a chinful of pimples on the verge of bursting.
    • Out of the corner of my eye I notice a grizzled old black lady with a chinful of hair wistfully studying the phone in my hand and give her a thumbs-up sign that I'm almost through.
  2. Having a noticeable chin.

    • The low-brow and square-face, The long Bartlett pear-face, The chinless and chinful, The grinless and sinful.
    • 'Flook' by Trog': note the classic representation of the chinless wonder and the chinful wonderess.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA