DIRTY-FACED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dirty-faced mean? 

• DIRTY-FACED (adjective)
  The adjective DIRTY-FACED has 1 sense:

1. having a dirty face

  Familiarity information: DIRTY-FACED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIRTY-FACED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a dirty face

Context example:

a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him

Similar:

dirty; soiled; unclean (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime)

 Context examples 

One dirty-faced man, I think he was a boot-maker, used to edge himself into the passage as early as seven o'clock in the morning, and call up the stairs to Mr. Micawber—“Come!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)