pouchy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of pouchy
Example Sentences
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Obviously I am not immune to that thrill of horror when the pouchy, saggy goings-on between my forehead and shoulders are revealed as my phone sadistically switches to front camera.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2019
He looked, Thomsen recalls, “so much like a pale, pouchy, and cruelly overworked head waiter that every civilian there, I felt, was trying very hard not to hand him a tip.”
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2014
At 62 Mr. Price has thick, dark brown hair and a hip manner that belie his age, and pouchy eyes that don’t.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2012
But Glenn McGrath was also a proper No11 and he always looked like he might bite your nose off, rather than like a friendly cartoon bear with pouchy cheeks.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2010
It was a living eye, the cornea a little bloodshot, the eyelashes luxuriant, the skin underneath coffee- stained and pouchy.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
His cheeks seem to grow pouchier, his eyes more sadly knowing, his manner ever more wisely patient.
From Time Magazine Archive
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