English

Alternative forms

• butter face

Noun

butterface ‎(plural butterfaces)

1. (slang, pejorative) 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 0743271661, 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 9780061706554, 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...

Synonyms

• BOBFOC, tip drill

Antonyms

• butterbody (slang, pejorative)

Etymology 2

but +‎ her +‎ face, influenced by the above

Noun

butterface ‎(plural butterfaces)

1. A person with mushy, unattractive facial features.

   I love you, but you're such a butterface I can hardly look at you.

2. The face of an unattractive person.

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

Derived terms

• butterfaced