adj. (old colloquial: now recognised).—See quots. For synonyms, see UGLY-MUG.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HATCHET-FAC’D, Hard favor’d, Homely.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. HATCHET FACE, a long thin face.
1865. G. A. SALA, A Trip to Barbary, p. 130. The man in black baize with the felt képi, and who had a HATCHET FACE desperately scarred with the small-pox, looked from head to heel a bad egg.
1888. J. RUNCIMAN, The Chequers, p. 7. His HATCHET FACE with its piggish eyes, his thin, cruel lips, his square jaw, are all murderous.
