Facer [adjective]

This would have been a “facer” to any but a true son of Uncle Sam.

I shall bear it well enough presently; but it's an awful facer, old boy.

Take care you don’t get an answer of that sort—a facer, I mean—from the ‘pretty fisher maiden.

This was a facer for the ex-priest, and ere he could frame a retort Jerome took up the matter again.

This was a facer, for the words "Justice of the Peace" had already set me quaking.

Here was a facer for Tarling, but he betrayed no sign either of disappointment or surprise.

One had the impudence to bellow in my face; for which impertinence he received a facer, which gave him something to bellow for.

This was a facer, and partly accounted for the secret contempt in which the sorcerers were held by many in the nation.

His brother rushed at him, but the young Devonshire man met him with such a facer that he dropped in a heap upon the ground.

Before he could recover this little facer, she said, quietly, "What is your name?"