 Re: Appearance Lexicon
Has a perfect face for radio... [best used of good friends/people who can take a joke]
Cadaverous [=very thin, like a skeleton]; with the stress on the second a, and three schwas.
And this one that I owe to Michael Palin: 'I wouldn't say he talks a lot, but you can usually tell where he's been by the trail of three-legged donkeys.' (Maybe this one's a bit too esoteric; the reference is to the idiom 'N could talk the hind leg off a donkey')
A person who talks a lot can be the butt of this idiom: 'N talks for England' - any other country would do as well (meaning 'the representative national team in a sporting contest'), but I've mostly heard 'England'.
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