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Meaning of horseface | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The face of a horse.
  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.
  3. Someone who is unattractive because they have a horseface.
    broadly

Examples

“It comes in the form of a mask, or a harmless owl, or a punning resemblance in the soft muzzle of a horseface.”
“In the mid-1940s, he used it as a mask, on an owl, or on a horseface.”
“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.”
“There had been gossip about the American Minister's wife's absence, which reported that she was very ugly and had a horseface.”
“But she had a horseface and nobody knew how on earth she got in.”
“Near-synonym: dogface”
“We got a horseface for a home room teacher.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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