hatchet face

American  

noun

1. a thin face with sharp features.

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Other Word Forms

• hatchet-faced adjective

Etymology

Origin of hatchet face

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

He was a frail, tuberculous stalk of a fellow with a hatchet face crowned on a high dome with an inverted bowl of reddish hair cut in bangs.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Toni-eeeeee...” hoof beats clattered on the concrete and the hatchet face of the Kid passed me by.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

There was about his thin body and hatchet face some of the grim determination that had made the Martians cling to their dying world and bring life to it again.

From A World is Born by Brackett, Leigh Douglass

His hair was even a little thin on top—with that and his lean, hatchet face he might have been thirty-five.

From Mary Gray by Tynan, Katharine

One of the brown French-governess-ladies with the hatchet face got out, and unloaded three kids: two boys and a girl.

From Michael O'Halloran by Stratton-Porter, Gene