cribbage-faced

English

Etymology

Allusion to the holes in a cribbage board.

Adjective

cribbage-faced (comparative more cribbage-faced, superlative most cribbage-faced)

  1. (slang, obsolete) Of a person: having a pockmarked face.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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