baby face
noun
a face having a bland babyish or childish appearance, especially a plump, small-featured face unmarked by characteristic lines.
baby face
Americannoun
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a face having a bland babyish or childish appearance, especially a plump, small-featured face unmarked by characteristic lines.
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a person having such a face.
baby-face
British
noun
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a smooth round face like a baby's
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a person with such a face
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of baby face
First recorded in 1705–15
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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
We learn that Babbitt, citizen of Zenith, “a mid-size, middlebrow city in the middle of America,” is not fat but extremely well fed, with a baby face marked by wrinkles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 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
Mr. Kang, who is soft-spoken with a baby face, joined in 2018 after heading international sales at CJ ENM, a Korean entertainment conglomerate.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
His lips were thick and pink and a baby face nestled under the silk of white-blond hair.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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
"Why isn't the little 'un in bed?" he said, with his eyes on the sleeping baby-face.
From Charles Rex by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Indeed I did not; the sweet baby-face full of glee was irresistible; so was the pat-pat of the two dimpled hands on her mother's shoulders.
From The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green
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