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
As I wrote at the time, “with his seamed, pouchy features and his shock of close-cut, iron-grey hair, John Hurt bears a striking resemblance to Beckett himself”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2017
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
Neumann One cuts Bernd’s hair, then Werner’s, then pouchy, wrecked Neumann Two’s.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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