horseface
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.46 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
Someone who is unattractive because they have a horseface.
Example Sentences
- "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"