double chin

English

Caricature of a man with a double chin

Pronunciation

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Noun

double chin (plural double chins)

1. A layer of subcutaneous fat under the chin, giving the appearance of having an extra chin.
   • 1958 October, “Liverpool to London in 1842”, in Railway Magazine, page 682:

     "In the coach in which I rode, there was a vacant seat till our arrival in Birmingham. Leaving Birmingham I found it filled with a fat Englishman, in drab breeches and gaiter boots, the finest specimen of a thorough John Bull that I had seen—weight about sixteen stone. He wore two top coats, a broad brimmed hat, and an enormous red travelling shawl, behind the folds of which his portly double chin was entirely hidden.

Translations

a layer of fat under the chin

• Afar: please add this translation if you can
• Akan: please add this translation if you can
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: ذِقْن مُزْدَوِج (ḏiqn muzdawij), لُغْد (ar) m (luḡd), غَبَب m (ḡabab)
• Armenian: կրկնակզակ (hy) (krknakzak), խպիպ (hy) (xpip), բոխախ (hy) (boxax)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: buxaq (az)
• Basque: kokozpeko
• Belarusian: падвойны падбародак (padvójny padbaródak), двайны падбародак (dvajny padbaródak)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: adelgezh (br) f
• Bulgarian: двойна брадичка f (dvojna bradička)
• Catalan: papada (ca) f, sotabarba f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙下巴 / 双下巴 (zh) (shuāngxiàba)

• Czech: dvojitá brada f, druhá brada f
• Danish: dobbelthage c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dongolawi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: onderkin (nl) f
• Esperanto: duobla mentono
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kaksoisleuka (fi)
• French: double menton (fr) m
• Fula: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: ღაბაბი (ka) (ɣababi)
• German: Doppelkinn (de) n
• Greek: διπλοσάγονο (el) n (diploságono)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: toka (hu)
• Icelandic: undirhaka (is) f
• Igala: please add this translation if you can
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: preiceall f, athsmig f, sprochaille f
• Italian: doppio mento, pappagorgia f
• Japanese: 二重顎 (にじゅうあご, nijūago, ふたえあご, futaeago)
• Kazakh: бұғақ (buğaq)
• Latvian: dubultzods m
• Macedonian: подбрадок m (podbradok)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: aa-smeggyl f, aa-smeggin m, smeggyl ghooblit f
• Nahuatl: quechnacayotl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dobbelthake m or f

  Nynorsk: dobbelhake f, dobbelthake f

• Plautdietsch: Kwoda m
• Polish: podwójny podbródek (pl) m
• Portuguese: queixo duplo m, papo (pt) m, papada f
• Romanian: gușă (ro), bărbie dublă (ro) f
• Russian: двойно́й подборо́док f (dvojnój podboródok)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀двољак m

  Latin: pòdvoljak (sh) m (Serbian), pòdbradak (sh) m (Croatian)

• Sicilian: buccularu (scn) m
• Slovak: dvojitá brada f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: papada (es) f, güegüecho m, sotabarba f, sobarba (es) f
• Swedish: dubbelhaka (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabil
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: gerdan (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: صقاق (sakak)

• Ukrainian: во́ло n (vólo), подві́йне підборі́ддя n (podvíjne pidboríddja)
• Wolof: please add this translation if you can
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
• Zarma: please add this translation if you can

See also

• butt chin
• have more chins than a Chinese phone book