faced

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[ward] 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, [1]

     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^[2], 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^[3], 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

• about-faced
• ashen-faced
• baby-faced
• babyfaced
• baby faced
• bacon-faced
• baldfaced
• bald-faced
• bald-faced hornet
• barefaced
• batfaced
• bell-faced
• blackfaced
• black-faced bunting
• black-faced cormorant
• black-faced ibis
• bluefaced
• blue-faced honeyeater
• boldfaced
• bold-faced
• bow-faced
• brazen-faced
• brazenfaced
• 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
• man-faced stinkbug (Catacanthus incarnatus)
• monkey-faced owl
• moonfaced
• moon-faced
• multifaced
• open-faced
• outfaced
• owl-faced monkey
• palefaced
• pale-faced bare-eye
• Panamanian white-faced capuchin
• paper-faced
• Peke-faced
• pie-faced
• piefaced
• pitch-faced
• pixie-faced
• po-faced
• poker-faced
• poker faced
• pokerfaced
• 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
• stone-faced
• stonefaced
• stony-faced
• straight-faced
• straightfaced
• sweetfaced
• tallow-faced
• twatfaced
• twifaced
• twi-faced
• two-faced
• unfaced
• weasel-faced
• whey-faced
• white-faced
• whitefaced
• white-faced capuchin monkey
• white-faced heron

 

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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drunk

Anagrams

• decaf

Spanish

Verb

faced

1. second-person plural imperative of facer