Apparently fugly has made it into AHD, but not Webster's. Comments on status and on first known usage, tsuwm?

Plug-ugly, meaning a thug, or one hired to intimidate, according to my MW Collegiate.

Hev - thanx for the cliche site. Took it upon myself to post pie / face there.

stales

Her face looks like it caught fire and somebody stamped it out with a track shoe.

He's got a face like a bag of spanners
she's got a face like a smacked arse
and finally (said of UK golfer Colin Montgomerie)
He's got a face like a Bulldog chewing a wasp( hornet)

the Duncster

How about the guy whose face looked so much like his aqq that his bowels did not know which way to run.

I was walking with a younger colleague when glimpsing a female whose facial features he thought more appropriate in a stable he muttered, "Whoa! Tough helmet!"

Frankly, I found her quite attractive and naturally assumed his tenebrous remark was complimentary. "Yea, she *IS* very pretty in a bookish way," I said, "but let's pretend we're civilized and try not to be obvious while we're staring." With a scrunched forehead, and one raised brow, he eyed me suspisciously and said "Geez! Have you no taste in women? *What* do you consider a good-lookin' woman?"

"Well, I kinda go in for the school-marm look, a woman in a long dress down to her ankles, hair in a bun, a ruler in one hand that she slaps smartly in the other, and a gleam in her bespectacled eye that says she just might use it."

Complete silence for a few moments and finally in a tone of utter disgust, "God ... You're a perve!"

In any case, "tough helmet" which I assume translates as "a face like a sea-hag."

k

Moe: [gasps] Am I really that ugly?
Carl: Moe, it's all relative. Is Lenny really that dumb? [Lenny looks grief-stricken] Is Barney that drunk? [Barney is saddened] Is Homer really that lazy, bald, and fat? [Homer also looks stricken]
Moe: Oh, my God, it's worse than I thought! [Moe and all the bar patrons except Carl literally cry in their beers]
Carl:[to the camera] See, this is why I don't talk much.

- The guys try to console Moe by pointing out he's not as ugly as the people at White Castle.

Moe: Aw, c'mon, look at me, I'm a gargoyle. What with the cauliflower ear there, and the lizard lips ...
Carl: ... little rat eyes ...
Homer: ... caveman brow ...
Lenny: ... don't forget that fish mouth.
Moe: Okay, I get it. I ain't pleasant to look at.
Lenny: Or listen to.
Carl: Or be with.

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... and if that ain't funny enough...

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[the scene flashes back to many years ago. Moe has his old face, an afro-like hairstyle and big sideburns]
Moe: It all goes back to my acting days. I was auditioning for the role of Dr. Tad Winslow on the hit soap, "It Never Ends."
[reading from a script] Angela, I'm afraid I --
Producer: [interrupting] Thank you; next!
[dejected, Moe leaves]
[to Casting producer] What were you thinking?
Casting: Well, you said you wanted gritty. In other words, ugly.
Producer: I wanted Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island" ugly, not Cornelius on "Planet of the Apes" ugly. TV-ugly, not ... ugly-ugly.
[Moe is behind one of the sets, eavesdropping with a stethoscope. Naturally, he is shattered by what he hears]
[flash back to the present]
Moe: I've been called ugly, pug-ugly, fugly, pug-fugly, but never ugly-ugly.
Homer: Well, it's time to get some closure ... extreme closure.

-- a face which could stop a clock

-- a face made for radio

Crossing thread-- one of my favorite limericks

As a beauty I’m not a great star.
Others are handsomer far;
But my face—I don’t mind it
Because I’m behind it;
It’s the folks out in front that I jar. 
ATTRIBUTION: A.H. Euwer (1877–?), U.S. author, illustrator. Limeratomy. 

A face only a mother could love.

(But that always struck me as excessively mean. )

For those who found Rhu post about Rhubard and dung bad, don't read this bit--
a traditional american folk song (from the south!) has this to say about NY gals --not their looks, but their cooking!

New York girls blow their nose in corn bread, and call it pumpkin pie!

A face that looks like it got hit by a Mack truck.

A face that would stop a clock.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. -- W. H. Auden

But let us not forget to honor the converse, our face that launched a thousand ships.

I've always liked "she looks like she fell out of the ugly tree, and didn't miss a branch," and the simpler "He got run over by the ugly truck."

Now I'll go have some fun at that cliche site - looks pretty entertaining.

one of my favorite friends is the *king of quips, and he uses the one about the ugly tree, but he says 'and hit every branch on the way down'. i've also heard him utter 'i've seen better legs on a pool table' more than once =) (OUCH!)

didn't we once have a thread about creative insults? fun stuff~ my favorite is saying that a person comes "from the shallow end of the gene pool".

what's the proper term for these things anyhow? quips? idioms? cliches? does anyone use the word "jape"? what exactly does that mean...a one-liner?

ps to hev: i love the cliche site ~ thanks! my favorite is "he's a bubble shy of plumb" =)

"S/he has a face that would shatter - (plate/cut glass// the mirror)" delete as appropriate