Pacer vs Facer - What's the difference?
pacer | facer |
One who paces.
A breed of horse used in harness races.
Short for pacemaker.
(Australian) A mechanical pencil.
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
As nouns the difference between pacer and facer
is that pacer is one who paces while facer is an unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.pacer
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia pacer)References
* Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) . Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pacer (accessed: April 07, 2007).Anagrams
* * * ----facer
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Noun
(en noun)- I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer .