English

Verb

faced

1. simple past tense and past participle of face

Adjective

faced ‎(not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having a face of a specified type.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 3,

     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.

   • 1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, New York: Modern Library, 1921, p. 272,

     O tan-faced prairie-boy, / Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift,

   • 1918, Siegried 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 **** 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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Etymology 2

abbreviation of ****-faced

Adjective

faced ‎(comparative more faced, superlative most faced)

1. (slang) drunk

   "The First Time I Got Faced" —

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:drunk

Anagrams

• decaf