pizza face

See also: pizza-face and Pizza Face

English

a pizza face

Alternative forms

• pizza-face, Pizza Face

Etymology

From pizza +‎ face. First use appears c. 1964 in the Delaware County Daily Times.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

pizza face (plural pizza faces)

1. (slang, derogatory) A person whose face has blemishes, acne, welts, bruises, colored splotches, etc.
   • 1998 January 16, Anita Gates, “Film Review: Wimp to Superwimp”, in New York Times, retrieved 2 June 2011:

     Later, when he mouths off to a Broodwarrior (Hey, pizza face, looking for something?), he's brave.

   • 2009 Apr. 20, "Haye taunts 'Bitchko' as heavyweight clash looms, Bangkok Post (retrieved 2 June 2011):

     "After 12 rounds he will be a pizza face—then I will knock him out."

2. (slang, derogatory) The face of such a person.
   • 2009 October 15, Glenn Howerton & Charlie Day, “The Waitress Is Getting Married” (12:50 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia‎^[1], season 5, episode 5, spoken by Artemis Dubois (Artemis Pebdani):

     “You dated Dee?” “Mm.” “Briefly, yeah.” “We dated hard, yep?” “Both you girls dumped him because of his pizza face.” “Ooh, okay.”

   • 1997, Avi, What Do Fish Have to do with Anything?, published 2004, →ISBN, page 152:

     The kid couldn't walk into a room without slamming into something, after which his pimply pizza face turned tomato red.

References

• “pizza face”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.