windchapped

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

wind +‎ chapped

Adjective[edit]

windchapped (comparative more windchapped, superlative most windchapped)

  1. (rare) Affected by windburn.
    • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 31, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 162:
      Working men with windchapped faces sat at the tables closest to the furnace and men in ties and gray or black overcoats sat around the edges of the saloon with newspapers.