butterface

butterface

See also: butter face

English

Alternative forms

• butter face

Etymology

Contraction of "but her face" (as in: "Everything about her is great, ... but her face.").

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtɚˌfeɪs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌtəˌfeɪs/

Noun

butterface (plural butterfaces)

1. (slang, derogatory) A woman who has an attractive body but less attractive facial features.
   • 2004, Amy Sohn, “The need to know and the fear of knowing”, in My Old Man‎, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 106:

     Her friend had a hot figure and a butterface — great body, but her face — and they were talking about Greyhound's most recent dating fiasco.

   • 2010, Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere‎, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 76:

     Her face wasn't quite as pretty as he had hoped — Earl, the other mechanic back at his father's place called this kind of girl a Butterface...

2. The face of an unattractive person.

   I can't even look at her, she's got such a butterface.

Synonyms

• BOBFOC, tip drill

Antonyms

• butterbody (slang, pejorative)

Derived terms

• butterfaced