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facer | faced |

As a noun facer

is an unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.

As a verb faced is

(face).

As an adjective faced is

(slang) drunk.

facer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat
  • * 2005' : "You're such a snob," she said, with a provoking laugh; coming from the family he was thought to be snobbish about, this was a bit of a '''facer . - , (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback, 6)
  • (obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
  • (obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer .

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    faced

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (face)

    • Etymology 2

    abbreviation of shit-faced

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) drunk
    • "The First Time I Got Faced " — [http://www.lebofsky.com/write/alt.html]
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