faced
Having a specified type or number of faces.
Adjective in compounds, not comparable
- Having a specified type or number of faces.
- The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look? - c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...
- c. 1694, William Bradshaw and Robert Midgley, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Volume 7, London: 1754, Letter VI, p. 148, https://books.google.ca/books?id=unlKAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false He either...
- 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. - 1865, Walt Whitman, “Drum-Taps: O Tan-faced...
- Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.
- The cuffs were faced with velvet.
Synonyms: lined
- With a specific kind of face.
- stony-faced
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Late Latin faciō Proto-Italic *-jēs Late Latin -iēs Late Latin faciēs Late Latin facia Old French facebor. Middle English face English face English -ed English faced From face + -ed.
Derived
about-faced ashen-faced baby-faced baby faced babyfaced bacon-faced bald-faced baldfaced bald-faced hornet barefaced batfaced bell-faced bifaced blackfaced black-faced bunting black-faced cormorant black-faced ibis blank-faced bluefaced blue-faced honeyeater boldfaced bold-faced bow-faced brazenfaced
Adjective slang
- drunk
- That night was the first time I ever got faced.
Origin
Abbreviation of shit-faced.
Forms
Verb
- simple past and past participle of face