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ferret-faced

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

  1. Of a person, having a sharp, pointed face reminiscent of a ferret.
    • 1845, Eugène Sue, translated by D.M. Aird, The Wandering Jew: A Tale of the Jesuits, London: Bruce and Wyld, page 191:
      Among the men who used the most insulting language to the workmen of the factory was a pale, ferret-faced looking little man , whose condition was evidently different from that of the troop by which he was surrounded.
    • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 102:
      It was the ferret-faced detective from the Sir Futzen Bunion murder mystery[.]