multichinned

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From multi- +‎ chinned.

Adjective[edit]

multichinned (comparative more multichinned, superlative most multichinned)

  1. Having multiple chins.
    • 1999, Kevin Sampson, Powder: An Everyday Story of Rock 'N' Roll Folk, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 477:
      The picture showed the group, a gurning, multichinned James looking like a melonhead in the foreground, dressed in formal evening-wear and cummerbunds. How the fuck had they got hold of those pictures? The boys looked like a cabaret band. It was bad. It was very bad.
    • 2004, Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 116:
      It's the unsmiling face of a balding, gray-haired, multichinned man with sizeable gold-rimmed glasses.
    • 2021 June 9, Alexis Soloski, “Kevins Can Score Improbably Attractive TV Wives”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-04:
      Seth MacFarlane's "Family Guy," which debuted in 1999, depicts dad Peter as an multichinned chucklehead while sketching mom Lois with the ha-cha-cha figure of a catalog model.