faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Etymology: From face + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look?
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: c. 1694, William Bradshaw and Robert Midgley, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Volume 7, London: 1754, Letter VI, p. 148, https://books.google.ca/books?id=unlKAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
He either heaves out fulsome hypochondriac Sighs, with supercilious Looks, and Chaps set like the Furrows of a sour-faced Hagi; or else he is tickled into a loud ungovernable Laughter, and all his Carriage is ridiculous and wanton.
text: O tan-faced prairie-boy, / […] / You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look'd on each other, / When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “Drum-Taps: O Tan-faced Prairie-boy”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC, page 250:
text: You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye / Who cheer when soldier lads march by, / Sneak home and pray you'll never know / The hell where youth and laughter go.
ref: 1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “Suicide in the Trenches”, in Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, page 81:
text: Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1:
glosses: Having a specified type or number of faces.
glosses: Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.
Derived terms: word: about-faced
word: ashen-faced
word: baby-faced
word: baby faced
word: babyfaced
word: bacon-faced
word: baldfaced
word: bald-faced
word: bald-faced hornet
word: barefaced
word: batfaced
word: bell-faced
word: bifaced
word: blackfaced
word: black-faced bunting
word: black-faced cormorant
word: black-faced ibis
word: blank-faced
word: bluefaced
word: blue-faced honeyeater
word: boldfaced
word: bold-faced
word: bow-faced
word: brazen-faced
word: brazenfaced
word: brosy-faced
word: bullfaced
word: crabfaced
word: cribbage-faced
word: crumpet-faced
word: cuntfaced
word: dish-faced
word: dog-faced baboon
word: double-faced
word: dough-faced
word: downfaced
word: facedly
word: ferret-faced
word: fibre-faced
word: flat-faced longhorn
word: flat-faced seahorse
word: fresh-faced
word: fuckfaced
word: fuck-faced
word: full-faced
word: gasfaced
word: gem-faced civet
word: ghost-faced bat
word: glass-faced
word: greenfaced
word: half-faced
word: hatchet-faced
word: hatchetfaced
word: hawk-faced
word: hog-faced ape
word: hollow-faced bat
word: horse-faced
word: Janus-faced
word: Janus-faced lock
word: lappet-faced vulture
word: lightfaced
word: liver-faced
word: long-faced
word: long-faced miner bee
alt: Catacanthus incarnatus
word: man-faced stinkbug
word: many-faced
word: monkey-faced owl
word: moonfaced
word: moon-faced
word: multifaced
word: open-faced
word: outfaced
word: owl-faced monkey
word: palefaced
word: pale-faced antbird
word: pale-faced bare-eye
word: Panamanian white-faced capuchin
word: paper-faced
word: Peke-faced
word: pie-faced
word: piefaced
word: pitch-faced
word: pixie-faced
word: platter-faced
word: po-faced
word: poker-faced
word: pokerfaced
word: poker faced
word: pretty-faced wallaby
word: pudding-faced
word: quarry-faced
word: red-faced cormorant
word: redfaced
word: red-faced
word: rib-faced deer
word: sad-faced
word: sallowfaced
word: self-faced
word: shamefaced
word: sheep-faced
word: shit-faced
word: shit faced
word: shitfaced
word: short-faced bear
word: short-faced kangaroo
word: shrew-faced squirrel
word: slit-faced bat
word: smock-faced
word: smooth-faced
word: sourfaced
word: spotfaced
word: stone-faced
word: stonefaced
word: stony-faced
word: straightfaced
word: straight-faced
word: sweetfaced
word: tallow-faced
word: twatfaced
word: twifaced
word: twi-faced
word: two-faced
word: unfaced
word: unifaced
word: weasel-faced
word: whey-faced
word: whitefaced
word: white-faced
word: white-faced capuchin monkey
word: white-faced heron
word: zitfaced