Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A face white or pale, as from fear; also, a person having a white or pale face, or looking pale from fright.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is pale, as from fear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who is
pale , as fromfear ; acoward .
Etymologies
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whey + face
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Examples
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No, forsooth: he hath but a little wheyface, with a little yellow bearda cane-coloured beard.
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