horseface
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]horseface (plural horsefaces)
- The face of a horse.
- 1971, ARTnews, page 28:
- It comes in the form of a mask, or a harmless owl, or a punning resemblance in the soft muzzle of a horseface.
- 2017, Antony C. Sutton, America's Secret Establishment:
- In the mid1940s, he used it as a mask, on an owl, or on a horseface.
- A face that is long and ugly, with coarse features.
- 1981, Gary McCarthy, Mustang Fever, →ISBN, page 94:
- 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.
- 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 a horseface.
- 2005, Kylie Adams, First Kiss, →ISBN, page 201:
- But she had a horseface and nobody knew how on earth she got in.
- (by extension) Someone who is unattractive and has a horseface.
- 1941, Israel James Kapstein, Something of a Hero, page 155:
- We got a horseface for a home room teacher.
- 2004, Marilyn Ross, Cellars of the Dead, →ISBN, page 12:
- 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.
- 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 a horseface 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”, in CNN:
- 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."