boot-faced
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Sweetshops peppered his boyhood and boyhood writing: lemon sherbets, bootlaces, gobstoppers and toffees; hard-boiled sweets served by boot-faced proprietors.
From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2016
A boot-faced extra from the crime scene turns out, on closer inspection, to be Pauline Quirke.
From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2013
I'm not laughing much at his jokes and must be looking rather boot-faced, which begins to make him irritated.
From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012
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