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Definitions: Red-faced |
Red-facedAdjective1. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment". 2. Having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset; "the blushing boy was brought before the Principal"; "her blushful beau"; "was red-faced with anger". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "red-faced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Synonyms: Red-facedSynonyms: aflame(p) (adj), blushful (adj), blushing(a) (adj), crimson (adj), flushed (adj), red (adj), reddened (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: red-faced pytilia (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), yellow-winged pytilia. |
Crosswords: Red-faced |
| English words defined with "red-faced": blushful, blushing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "red-faced": BRANDY-FACED ♦ FIERI FACIAS ♦ Morther ♦ RUBY FACED. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Red-faced Cormorant.Credit: Alaska Image Library. |
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| "Red-faced" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Red-faced" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 92.86% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "red-faced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محمر الوجه. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 红色面对. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | punakka (florid, ruddy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rubicond, rougeaud (reddy-faced person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sanguigno (bad tempered, blood, blood red, haematoid, sanguine, sanguineous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 빨갛 면하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jiarg neealagh (ruddy-complexioned), jiarg ghrooishagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ed-facedray corado (ablush, blowzy, blushing, colored, coloured, coloured wine, florid, flush, full-blooded, high-colored, high-coloured, rubicund, ruddy, stained wine), com a cara vermelha. (various references) de cara roja. (various references) rödbrusiga. (various references) ซึ่งมีหน้าแ"งเพราะอาย. (various references) рум'яний (auroral, blushful, high-colored, high-coloured, red, rosy, rubicund, ruddy, sanguine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Pytilia hypogrammica. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Red-faced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: redface, redfaced. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-f-r" | |
-1 letter: defaced, defacer, refaced. | |
-2 letters: carded, deader, deafer, decade, decare, deface, farced, farded, feared, reface. | |
-3 letters: acred, adder, arced, cadre, cared, cedar, ceded, ceder, cered, creed, dared, decaf, defer, dread, dreed, eared, faced, facer, faded, fader, farce, fared, freed, raced, readd, reded, refed. | |
-4 letters: aced, acre, cade, cafe, card, care, cede, cere, dace, dare, dead, deaf, dear, deed, deer, dere, dree, face, fade, fard, fare, fear, feed, fere, frae, free, race, read, redd, rede, reed, reef. | |
-5 letters: ace, add, arc, are, arf, cad, car, cee, dad, dee, ear, era, ere, fad, far, fed, fee, fer, rad, rec, red, ree, ref. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-f-r" | |
+2 letters: forecaddie. | |
+3 letters: forecaddies. | |
+4 letters: confederated. | |
+5 letters: schadenfreude, underfinanced. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 64 2D 66 61 63 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100100 00101101 01100110 01100001 01100011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e d - f a c e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0064 002D 0066 0061 0063 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527170157267697170 |
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