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facey

facey is the alternative form of facety.

Meaning of facety

Adjective

facety (comparative more facety, superlative most facety)

  1. (Caribbean, Jamaica) Playfully rude; feisty.
    • My teachers, in the main, thought this was good, but in my parents' opinion I was just simply “facety,” or in plain English, rude or impertinent. Well, the discovery came about as a result of my being “facety” to Mavis.2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 2

Proper noun capitalized: Facey

Facey (plural Faceys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of facey

Adjective
comparativemore facey
superlativemost facey
Proper noun
pluralFaceys

Origin of facey

Apparently from face + -y. Attested slightly later than facety. Uncertain whether connected with earlier facy (“insolent, impudent”).

Various origins: * A variant of Veazey. * Americanized spelling of German Fehse or Vehse. * Americanized spelling of Swiss German Fäsi.

Questions about facey

What does facey mean?
Facey means a surname.
What is facey the alternative form of?
Facey is the alternative form of facety.
What part of speech is facey?
Facey is a proper noun.

Words near facey in the dictionary

  1. facewise
  2. facework
  3. faceworker
  4. faceworkers
  5. faceworks
  6. facey
  7. Facey B
  8. Faceys
  9. Fach
  10. fachan
  11. fachans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: facey (page history and authors); Facey (page history and authors); facety (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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