Brewer's: Chitty-faced

Baby-faced, lean. A chit is a child or sprout. Both chit and chitty-faced are terms of contempt. (Anglo-Saxon, cith, a twig, etc.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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