There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun zit-face. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
zit-face is considered derogatory.
The earliest known use of the noun zit-face is in the 1970s.
OED's earliest evidence for zit-face is from 1974, in Parnassus.
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1974–
(An abusive name for) a person with pimples or facial acne.
1974
‘Yaaa-hooo! Friday night and I'm gonna get laid!’ ‘Not unless you put a bag over your head, zit-face.’
Parnassus (Northern Essex Community Coll., Massachusetts) Fall 17/1
1984
Forgot to send you an invite, zit face, but come anyway, dress as a warlock or you won't get in.
S. Townsend, Growing Pains of Adrian Mole 105
2008
Why are you talking to me, zitface?
S. Toltz, Fraction of Whole iv. 380
(An abusive or insulting name for) a person having a face likened to that of a pig; also used as a more general term of abuse or contempt; cf. swine-…
A person who has an open and honest face; in quot. as a form of address.
A term of reproach: thin-face, pinched-face; in later usage, baby-face.
(A contemptuous term for) a person with a thin, narrow face.
A face like that of a dog, or a person having this. Also as a term of abuse. Cf. dog's face, n.
A contemptuous term for a gaunt or hungry-looking person.
A person with a pretty face. Also as a term of endearment. Now rare, except in sense 1b.
A person with such a face. Frequently as a nickname.
attributive and in other combinations, as slape-faced, slape-fingered, slape-haired, etc.; slape-face n. (see quot. 1847); also, a smooth-faced man.
A pinched face; a pinch-faced person; a grumbler, a complainer.
slang and derogatory (originally U.S. College slang). A person with facial acne.
derogatory. slang (originally U.S.). (An abusive name for) a person with pimples or facial acne.
Originally published as part of the entry for zit, n.
zit-face, n. was first published in 2021.
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