faced

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feɪst/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪst

Etymology 1

face +‎ -ed

Verb

faced

  1. simple past and past participle of face

Adjective

faced (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) Having a specified type or number of faces.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
      The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look?
    • c. 1694, William Bradshaw and Robert Midgley, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Volume 7, London: 1754, Letter VI, p. 148,
      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.
    • 1865, Walt Whitman, “Drum-Taps: O Tan-faced Prairie-boy”, in Leaves of Grass , Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, , published 1892, →OCLC, page 250:
      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.
    • 1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “Suicide in the Trenches”, in Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, page 81:
      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.
    • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1:
      Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.
  2. Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of shit-faced.

Adjective

faced (comparative more faced, superlative most faced)

  1. (slang) drunk
    That night was the first time I ever got faced.
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Spanish

Verb

faced

  1. second-person plural imperative of facer