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face like a slapped bum

face like a slapped bum is the alternative form of face like a smacked arse.

Meaning of face like a smacked arse

Noun

face like a smacked arse (plural faces like smacked arses)

  1. (Ireland, Northern England, mildly, slang, vulgar, simile) The face of someone who looks depressed.

Forms of face like a slapped bum

pluralfaces like slapped bums

Questions about face like a slapped bum

What is face like a slapped bum the alternative form of?
Face like a slapped bum is the alternative form of face like a smacked arse.

Words near face like a slapped bum in the dictionary

  1. face lifts
  2. face like a bag of spanners
  3. face like a fiddle
  4. face like a slapped arse
  5. face like a slapped ass
  6. face like a slapped bum
  7. face like a smacked arse
  8. face like a smacked ass
  9. face like a smacked bum
  10. face like the back end of a bus
  11. face like thunder

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Adapted from Wiktionary: face like a slapped bum (page history and authors); face like a smacked arse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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