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faceful

faceful noun: an amount that fills or covers the face.

Noun

faceful (plural facefuls)

  1. An amount that fills or covers the face.
    • Because l didn't dare take either hand off the wheel, I did get a few facefuls of snow, passing under hemlocks with especially low-drooped branches, but that was a cheap price for getting the tractor safely out.2006, Noel Perrin, Terry Osborne, Best person rural: essays of a sometime farmer, page 81

Forms of faceful

pluralfacefuls

Origin of faceful

From face + -ful.

Questions about faceful

What does faceful mean?
Faceful means an amount that fills or covers the face.
What part of speech is faceful?
Faceful is a noun.
What is the plural of faceful?
The plural of faceful is facefuls.

Words near faceful in the dictionary

  1. facefirst
  2. facefuck
  3. facefucked
  4. facefucking
  5. facefucks
  6. faceful
  7. facefuls
  8. faceguard
  9. faceguards
  10. facehole
  11. faceholes

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