and cribbage-faced, subs. and adj. phr. (common).—Pock-marked and like a cribbage-board. Otherwise COLANDER-FACED, CRUMPET-FACED, PIKELET-FACED, and MOCKERED (q.v.).
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Avoir un grenier à lentilles (popular: a cock-loft, granary, or garret, for the storage of lentils); ne pas s’être assuré contre la grêle (popular: grêle = hail); un morceau de gruyère (popular: that cheese being honeycombed with holes); avoir un moule à gaufres (popular: moule = mould; gaufre = a cake); une écumoire (familiar: properly a skimmer); poèle à chátaignes (poèle = frying pan and chátaignes = chestnuts; the colander-like shovel for roasting chestnuts).
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. CRIBBAGE FACED, marked with the small pox, the pits bearing a kind of resemblance to the holes in a cribbage board.
