faced

Etymology 1

face + -ed

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of face

adj

  1. (in combination) Having a specified type or number of faces.
    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 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.
    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. 1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “Suicide in the Trenches”, in Counter-Attack and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, page 81
    Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons. 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1
  2. Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of shit-faced.

adj

  1. (slang) drunk
    That night was the first time I ever got faced.

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