Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a white or pale face; pallid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a pale or white face, as from fright.
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Examples
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She stayed at the Essex House, but it was infested with badly dressed “whey-faced agents.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Oh yes," I found myself gurgling at the screen on Saturday, "you have to say that's a top-class strike from Adam Johnson, the whey-faced wing wonder who was taught his trade on Teesside'.
For fans of ex-Middlesbrough players, these are heady days indeed | Harry Pearson 2011
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She stayed at the Essex House, but it was infested with badly dressed “whey-faced agents.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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“Pant, honey,” the whey-faced nurse with ferret-like eyes encouraged.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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This, in her last appearance in Coronation Street, was the sad but sparky Becky McDonald to her whey-faced enemy Deirdre.
She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012
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“Pant, honey,” the whey-faced nurse with ferret-like eyes encouraged.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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For beyond-the-pale rhetoric it's hard to beat Carry Nation, the God-fearing temperance zealot she used a hatchet (and hammers, rocks and bricks) to attack saloons in the first decade of the 20th century who celebrated the assassination of President William O. McKinley in 1901 by calling him a "whey-faced tool of Republican thieves, rummies and devils."
Temperance Tantrum 2010
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He had once described her as a bone-thin, whey-faced girl.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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Anne is pretty enough, in a whey-faced, bone-thin fashion, but she is delicate.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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Nick Clegg, whey-faced with a wax of sweat lying atop his anxious features, may as well have been prepared in hair and make-up by a mortician.
hernesheir commented on the word whey-faced
(adj): pale, as from fear.
January 9, 2009
arcadia commented on the word whey-faced
What is going on here?!!?
January 9, 2009
plethora commented on the word whey-faced
??
January 9, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word whey-faced
Ugh. *runs to bathroom*
January 9, 2009