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Pacer vs Facer - What's the difference?

pacer | facer |

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

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia pacer)
  • One who paces.
  • A breed of horse used in harness races.
  • Short for pacemaker.
  • (Australian) A mechanical pencil.

    • References

    * Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) . Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pacer (accessed: April 07, 2007).

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    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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