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horseface

horseface noun: the face of a horse.

Noun

horseface (plural horsefaces)

  1. The face of a horse.
    • It comes in the form of a mask, or a harmless owl, or a punning resemblance in the soft muzzle of a horseface.1971, ARTnews, page 28
    • In the mid-1940s, he used it as a mask, on an owl, or on a horseface.2017, Antony C. Sutton, America's Secret Establishment
  2. A face (of a human or other non-horse animal) that is long and ugly, with coarse features, thus having a resemblance or fancied resemblance to the face of a horse.
    • He did have a horseface, Darby decided angrily as he yanked a handkerchief from his back pocket to wipe the tobacco off another ruined shirt.1981, Gary McCarthy, Mustang Fever, →ISBN, page 94
    • There had been gossip about the American Minister's wife's absence, which reported that she was very ugly and had a horseface.1995, Marie B. Hecht, John Quincy Adams: A Personal History of an Independent Man
  3. (broadly) Someone who is unattractive because they have a horseface.
    • Near-synonym: dogface
    • We got a horseface for a home room teacher.1941, Israel James Kapstein, Something of a Hero, page 155
    Synonyms:
    dogface

Examples of horseface in a sentence

  • But she had a horseface and nobody knew how on earth she got in.2005, Kylie Adams, First Kiss, →ISBN, page 201:
  • Aunt Samantha had shown annoyance at this by puffing her nostrils and issuing a sort of whinny-like protest which made her seem all the more a horseface.2004, Marilyn Ross, Cellars of the Dead, →ISBN, page 12:
  • This one girl, Dasanna, kept asking me if I wanted to meet in person, and she wasn't a horseface in the game or anything, so we decided to hang at Champps sports bar.2007, Game Informer Magazine: For Video Game Enthusiasts:
  • On Tuesday, the President of the United States referred to a porn star with whom he has been alleged to have had in affair in the mid 2000s as "horseface."2018 October 16, Chris Cillizza, “Donald Trump just called Stormy Daniels 'horseface.' Don't act surprised”, in CNN:

Synonyms of horseface

Forms of horseface

pluralhorsefaces

Origin of horseface

From horse + face.

Questions about horseface

What does horseface mean?
Horseface means the face of a horse.
How do you use horseface in a sentence?
But she had a horseface and nobody knew how on earth she got in.
What part of speech is horseface?
Horseface is a noun.
What is the plural of horseface?
The plural of horseface is horsefaces.

Words near horseface in the dictionary

  1. horsedick
  2. horsedicks
  3. horsedom
  4. horsedrawn
  5. horsedung
  6. horseface
  7. horsefaces
  8. horsefair
  9. horsefairs
  10. horsefame
  11. horsefamous

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