facie
/fˈeɪsi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Diminutive of face.
Example Sentences
- "Lovely is thy little facie, / Wi’ its locks o’ goud / Calmly couched roun’ thy wee haffets, / Like some simmer cloud."
- "Willie Whiskers.—A character in one of the “Mother Goose” rhymes, which is as follows: “Willie Whiskers had to stay / Near his mamma all the day, / For fear he’d fall down in the dirt / And get his little facie hurt.”"
- "Suppose when a man comes home he look sfor^([sic]) little facies against the window pane, watching for papa."
- "But never allow sentimentality. “Little Birdie lets his mother wash his dear, little facie,” simpers the foolish mother. Is it to be wondered at that Algie says he saw “Mother Birdie” spanking her nestling? This is an utterly wrong way to talk."
- "“Oh, you little sweetheart! Come and get your little facie washed. Bobby, want your little facie washed? Do you? Do you?” he asks Bobby when their cages are being cleaned or whenever he thinks Bobby’s face is dirty."
- "“Oh, I know a girl and her name is Gracie, / She has the prettiest little facie,” he sang and his voice climbed up to a higher pitch of happiness and floated out of the open windows into the elm boughs, […]"
Etymology
From face + -ie.