faced en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /feɪst/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin faciēs Late Latin facia Old French facebor. Middle English face English face English -ed English faced From face + -ed.
Meanings
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(in-compounds, not-comparable) Having a specified type or number of faces.
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look?
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]: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.
1865, Walt Whitman, “Drum-Taps: O Tan-faced Prairie-boy”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC, page 250:Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1: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.
1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “Suicide in the Trenches”, in Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, page 81: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.
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(not-comparable) Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.
The cuffs were faced with velvet.
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(not-comparable) With a specific kind of face.
stony-faced
Deriveds
pumpkin-faced · crumpet-faced · twatfaced · whitefaced · glass-faced · white-faced heron · smooth-faced · barefaced · tallow-faced · brosy-faced · long-faced · flat-faced seahorse · smock-faced · palefaced · monkey-faced owl · blackfaced · pokerfaced · spotfaced · sallowfaced · gasfaced · weasel-faced · baldfaced · ghost-faced bat · shamefaced · stonefaced · hatchetfaced · half-faced · shrew-faced squirrel · greenfaced · long-faced miner bee · redfaced · boldfaced · gem-faced civet · Janus-faced lock · dog-faced baboon · short-faced kangaroo · fuck-faced · piefaced · man-faced stinkbug · Janus-faced · ashen-faced · paper-faced · pitch-faced · short-faced bear · fuckfaced · hatchet-faced · pretty-faced wallaby · black-faced cormorant · bluefaced · Panamanian white-faced capuchin · moon-faced · black-faced bunting · white-faced · poker-faced · outfaced · white-faced capuchin monkey · owl-faced monkey · two-faced · ferret-faced · horse-faced · unfaced · open-faced · shitfaced · flat-faced longhorn · red-faced cormorant · po-faced · stone-faced · sweetfaced · pie-faced · black-faced ibis · bow-faced · dish-faced · cuntfaced · multifaced · bold-faced · blue-faced honeyeater · pale-faced bare-eye · babyfaced · about-faced · sheep-faced · red-faced · twifaced · poker faced · Malayan slit-faced bat · brazen-faced · baby faced · pale-faced antbird · heavy-faced · stony-faced · unifaced · rib-faced deer · whey-faced · blue-faced booby · Peke-faced · hawk-faced · dough-faced · shit-faced · liver-faced · full-faced · facedly · sour-faced · platter-faced · batfaced · sad-faced · pixie-faced · sourfaced · pudding-faced · fresh-faced · many-faced · lightfaced · bell-faced · crabfaced · baby-faced · bald-faced · slit-faced bat · bifaced · blank-faced · straight-faced · lappet-faced vulture · downfaced · zitfaced · shit faced · bullfaced · brazenfaced · bacon-faced · self-faced · open-faced sandwich · cribbage-faced · bald-faced hornet · quarry-faced · hollow-faced bat · hog-faced ape · double-faced · fibre-faced · straightfaced · moonfaced · twi-faced