adj. (old).—Thin; weazened; baby-faced. Cf., CHIT, sense 3.
1601. MUNDAY, The Death of Robert Earle of Huntingdon, I., iii. You halfe-fac’t groat, you thick [? thin] cheekt CHITTI-FACE. [M.]
1621. BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy [2nd ed.], p. 519. A thin, lean, CHITTY-FACE.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum.
1859. HOTTEN, The Slang Dictionary.
