11.10. Vocabulary. Physical appearance.

 

BODY

FACE

HAIR

WELL-BUILT

ROSY-CHEEKED (red cheeks)

CURLY

STOUT (short)

STRAIGHT (‘meaning serious expression’)

BALD (no hair at all)

STOCKY (short but wide and muscular)

FRECKLED (small round marks on the skin)

STRAIGHT

PLUMP (euphemism of fat)

TANNED (brown from the sun)

RECEDING (hair that has began to fall out and is gradually moving backwards)

SKINNY (thin)

FLAT (not round)

THIN

TANNED (brown from the sun)

GAUNT (thin and unhealthy looking)

SHAVEN (cut extremely shortly)

ATHLETIC

FLUSHED (off colour from illness)

FRIZZY (very curly)

BROAD-SHOULDERED (‘broad’ is a synonym of ‘wide’.

THIN

SHOULDER LENGTH

WAIF-LIKE (very thin and week looking)

SHAVEN (no beard)

PLAITS (long hair that is wrapped together in three parts to form a long thin pattern.)

POT-BELLIED (a protruding round stomach, taxi driver style.)

POUTING (sticking your lips out to look sexy)

WIG (artificial hair)

FAT

RUBBER LIPS (Mick Jagger’s mouth)

PONY TAIL (the clump of hair tied together behind the head)

THIN

NOSTRILS (the holes that let air into your nose)

FRINGE (hair  on the forehead cut into an even line

MUSCULAR

BEARD (facial hair)

QUIFF (the large clump of hair that Elvis and rockabillies have.)

CALVES (the back muscles of the lower leg. Singular: calf.

FOREHEAD (the part of the body between your hair and your eyes)

PARTING (a line formed in the hair by dividing into different directions)

BOTTOM  (the part that you sit on)

TEMPLE (the flat bone just to the side of the eyes, at the top of the head)

CURLS

WAIST (the part you put a belt around)

DIMPLE (small indentation in the skin. Kirk Douglas had a famous one.)

BALD PATCH (hair that has fallen out, but only in one part)

THUMB (the largest fattest ‘finger’)

STUBBLE (very short rough hair caused by not shaving)

 

KNEES (joints in the legs)

EYE-BROW (the hair above the eyes)

 

BREASTS (babies drink milk from them)

ACNE (skin disorder causing spots)

 

ELBOW (joints in the arms)

WRINKLES (lines caused by ageing)

 

ANKLE (joints that enable the feet to move)

 

 

ADAMS APPLE (the lump in your throat)

 

 

BEER GUT (large stomach caused by too much drinking)

 

 

THIGHS (the large muscles at the top of your legs)