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bluefaced en · ADJ

Etymology

From blue + faced.

Meanings

1. Having a blue face.
   • Mrs. Provo smiled but Rosacoke said, "That's a bluefaced lie. I don't like boys yet." 1999, Reynolds Price, A Singular Family: Rosacoke and Her Kin, page 64:
   • A bluefaced shock troop leader staggered over to see what it might command. 2005, William Vollmann, Europe Central, part 25:
   • But we lacked the collector's instinct that impels a true birder to travel hundreds of miles just to add a bluefaced booby to his life list. 2012, Donald G. Schueler, A Handmade Wilderness, page 174:
   • Then when the money got scarce as hens' back teeth and his drunks commenced coming so close they were one long drunk and he was sleeping nights wherever he dropped in fields or by the road—I took all that like a bluefaced fool. 2009, Reynolds Price, A Long and Happy Life: A Novel, page 89:

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Relateds

until one is blue in the face · baldfaced · boldfaced · barefaced