Obs. Also 7 chichie-, chits-, chit-face, 7–8 chittiface. [Possibly originally F. chicheface thin face, pinched-face (see CHICHEVACHE), perverted by association with CHICH, with CHIT sb.1 or 2, or with CHITTY.]
1. A term of reproach: thin-face, pinched-face; in later usage, baby-face.
1601. Munday, Downf. R. Earl of Huntington, I iij. You halfe-fac’t groat, you thick [? thin] cheekt chittiface.
1602. J. Cooke, Good Wife, II. iii. That leane chittiface, that famine, that leane Enuy, that all bones.
1611. Cotgr., Chiche-face, a chichiface, micher, sneake-bill.
1617. Minsheu, Ductor, Chittiface proprie est facies parua et exigua.
1632. Sherwood, A chittie-face, or chichie-face, Ciche-face.
1681. Otway, Soldier’s Fort., III. Now, now, you little Witch, now you Chitsface.
c. 1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Chitti-face, a little puiny Child.
1725. New Cant. Dict.
2. attrib. = CHITTY-FACED.
1622. Massinger, Virg. Mart., II. i. The peaking chitface page hit me ith’ teeth with it [so ed. 1631; ed. 1779 and mod. edd. have altered it to chitty-face].
