cribbage-faced, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cribbage-faced adj.

[the supposed resemblance of such scars to the small holes found in a cribbage board]

a face marked with smallpox scars.

1788

18001850

1895

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		R. Waln Hermit in America on Visit to Phila. 2nd series 28: She was [...] Cribbage-faced — Beetle-headed — Bottle-headed — Buffle-headed — and Chuckle-headed!!!
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn).
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1882		Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 3: Cribbage-faced - Pock-marked.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 20: Cribbage-faced, marked with small-pox.