faced
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /feɪst/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪst
Etymology 1
face + -ed
Verb
faced
- simple past tense and past participle of face
Adjective
faced (not comparable)
- (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[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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 1514723, 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, p. 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.
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- Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.
Derived terms
- about-faced
- ashen-faced
- babyfaced
- baby-faced
- baby faced
- bacon-faced
- bald-faced
- baldfaced
- bald-faced hornet
- barefaced
- batfaced
- bell-faced
- blackfaced
- black-faced bunting
- black-faced ibis
- bluefaced
- blue-faced honeyeater
- boldfaced
- bold-faced
- bow-faced
- brazenfaced
- brazen-faced
- brosy-faced
- bullfaced
- crabfaced
- cribbage-faced
- cuntfaced
- dish-faced
- dog-faced baboon
- double-faced
- dough-faced
- downfaced
- facedly
- fibre-faced
- flat-faced longhorn
- fresh-faced
- fuck-faced
- fuckfaced
- full-faced
- gasfaced
- ghost-faced bat
- glass-faced
- greenfaced
- half-faced
- hatchet-faced
- hatchetfaced
- hawk-faced
- horse-faced
- Janus-faced
- Janus-faced lock
- lappet-faced vulture
- lightfaced
- liver-faced
- long-faced
- long-faced miner bee
- monkey-faced owl
- moon-faced
- moonfaced
- multifaced
- open-faced
- outfaced
- palefaced
- pale-faced bare-eye
- paper-faced
- pie-faced
- piefaced
- pitch-faced
- pixie-faced
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- pokerfaced
- poker faced
- pretty-faced wallaby
- pudding-faced
- quarry-faced
- red-faced
- redfaced
- red-faced cormorant
- rib-faced deer
- sad-faced
- self-faced
- shamefaced
- sheep-faced
- shit faced
- shit-faced
- shitfaced
- short-faced bear
- shrew-faced squirrel
- smock-faced
- sourfaced
- spotfaced
- stonefaced
- stone-faced
- stony-faced
- straightfaced
- straight-faced
- sweetfaced
- tallow-faced
- twatfaced
- twi-faced
- twifaced
- two-faced
- unfaced
- weasel-faced
- whey-faced
- whitefaced
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of shit-faced.
Adjective
faced (comparative more faced, superlative most faced)
- (slang) drunk
- That night was the first time I ever got faced.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:drunk
Anagrams
- decaf
Spanish
Verb
faced
- second-person plural imperative of facer