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horseface

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Etymology

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Fromhorse +‎face.

Noun

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horseface (pluralhorsefaces)

  1. Theface of ahorse.
    • 1971,ARTnews, page28:
      It comes in the form of a mask, or a harmless owl, or a punning resemblance in the soft muzzle of ahorseface.
    • 2017, Antony C. Sutton,America's Secret Establishment:
      In the mid-1940s, he used it as a mask, on an owl, or on ahorseface.
  2. Aface (of a human or other non-horse animal) that islong andugly, withcoarsefeatures, thus having a resemblance or fancied resemblance to the face of a horse.
    • 1981, Gary McCarthy,Mustang Fever,→ISBN, page94:
      He did have ahorseface, Darby decided angrily as he yanked a handkerchief from his back pocket to wipe the tobacco off another ruined shirt.
    • 1995, Marie B. Hecht,John Quincy Adams: A Personal History of an Independent Man:
      There had been gossip about the American Minister's wife's absence, which reported that she was very ugly and had ahorseface.
    • 2005, Kylie Adams,First Kiss,→ISBN, page201:
      But she had ahorseface and nobody knew how on earth she got in.
  3. (by extension) Someone who isunattractive because they have a horseface.
    Coordinate term:pigface
    Near-synonym:dogface
    • 1941, Israel James Kapstein,Something of a Hero, page155:
      We got ahorseface for a home room teacher.
    • 2004, Marilyn Ross,Cellars of the Dead,→ISBN, page12:
      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 ahorseface.
    • 2007,Game Informer Magazine: For Video Game Enthusiasts:
      This one girl, Dasanna, kept asking me if I wanted to meet in person, and she wasn't ahorseface in the game or anything, so we decided to hang at Champps sports bar.
    • 2018 October 16, Chris Cillizza, “Donald Trump just called Stormy Daniels 'horseface.' Don't act surprised”, inCNN:
      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."

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