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
Example Sentences
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But in this crowd of men and women ages ranging from roughly 21 to 40, I suppose my baby face gave me away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
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
Jaiswal, baby face and flashing blade, has tormented Stokes' side with runs from Vizag to Headingley.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
“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
He had a baby face, but I could tell he was way older than he looked by the creases in his forehead.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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
“Well, now,” he replied, “if I had a smooth baby-face like yours I would not say as I had, but bein’ a man, you see, I may ventur’ to say that I have.”
From The Young Trawler by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Look at him, Thorne!" said my good chum,--"look at the child's baby-face, so frank and earnest!--look at him!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various
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