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
It was an ill wind indeed that fixed Lady F.’s features into that attitude of pouchy petulance, and it must have done a number on her soul, too.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2015
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
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
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