bluefaced

bluefaced

English

Etymology

blue +‎ faced

Adjective

bluefaced (comparative more bluefaced, superlative most bluefaced)

1. Having a blue face.
   • 1999, Reynolds Price, A Singular Family: Rosacoke and Her Kin, page 64:

     Mrs. Provo smiled but Rosacoke said, "That's a bluefaced lie. I don't like boys yet.

   • 2005, William Vollmann, Europe Central, part 25:

     A bluefaced shock troop leader staggered over to see what it might command.

   • 2009, Reynolds Price, A Long and Happy Life: A Novel, page 89:

     Then when the money got scarce as hens' back teeth and his drunks commenced coming so close they were one long drunk and he was sleeping nights wherever he dropped in fields or by the road—I took all that like a bluefaced fool.

   • 2012, Donald G. Schueler, A Handmade Wilderness, page 174:

     But we lacked the collector's instinct that impels a true birder to travel hundreds of miles just to add a bluefaced booby to his life list.