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.
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
In 2020 she received baby face collagen injections - designed to make the face appear more plump - from an unlicensed clinic opened by a close friend.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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
His hulking 6-foot-5 frame is offset by a baby face and blank stare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
He couldn’t have been older than twenty-five, and he had a white baby face with ruddy cheeks, sideburns, and a gold cross around his neck.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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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
But what a child in the grown-up dress with the high puffed sleeves, her baby-face laughing at him over the high stiff collar; a pretty dress, though, that dark blue stuff with the white stripes….
From The Cathedral by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
And a huge, gross-bodied man with a fat baby-face and opaque black eyes.
From Lone Star Planet by Piper, H. Beam
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