a face having a bland babyish or childish appearance, especially a plump, small-featured face unmarked by characteristic lines.
a person having such a face.
a smooth round face like a baby's
a person with such a face
First recorded in 1705–15
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With a baby face and bouncing blond hair, the Draco Malfoy lookalike was a bowler of obvious promise but no clear identity.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
Maybe time had to work its magic to find a place where the baby face ended and the smolder began; they could not exist as one, though he certainly gave it the college try.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2025
So they rap a song about being “baby-faced dudes” before being joined by fellow baby face Kenan Thompson and for some reason Punkie Johnson in a pink wig as sort-of Nicki Minaj.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2023
“He’s got the baby face and the young grin and the cool hairdo, you know he’s young, but he’s very mature beyond his years and he knows what’s going on out there,” Richardson said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
“You will not leave,” he said, his baby face stern.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
Agen Akhere has a round, baby-face but his small eyes are searing red.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2018
I, meanwhile, have a button nose and chubby cheeks that some have said look like a baby-face.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016
Do you try to disguise your youth or, like Bram, use your baby-face as a marketing tool?
From Inc ● Aug. 16, 2012
Aunt Clem had a round, full, baby-face, for all she was so old.
From A Little Girl of Long Ago by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
What an irony of life that once of the two times when I remember to have been cruel, it was to Arthur, with his small astonished baby-face remaining a reproach to me ever after!
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence
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