Facerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From face (noun) +‎ -er.

名詞

facer (plural facers)

1. (slang, obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing.
   • 1856 May, Thomas Hughes, quoting Charles Kingsley, “Prefatory Memoir”, in Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], London: Macmillan and Co., published 1876, →OCLC, page lvi:

     I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one.

2. (slang, by extension) An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.

   Synonym: slap in the face

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 1, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:

     “You're such a snob,” she said, with a provoking laugh; coming from the family he was thought to be snobbish about, this was a bit of a facer.

   • 2024 January 27, Janan Ganesh, “Could there be a liberal demagogue?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 21:

     He [Joschka Fischer] was for Nato, looser visa rules and—quite the facer for his pacifist colleagues—the bombing of Serbia.

3. (slang) A serving of alcoholic drink; a dram.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edgar Wallace to this entry?)

   Dory […] poured a little whisky into a glass, and grew reminiscent. “I had a facer myself this morning before I came down,” he said.

参照

• (alcoholic drink): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

語源 2

From face (verb) +‎ -er.

名詞

facer (plural facers)

1. (obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.

アナグラム

• farce, EACRF