facer

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪsə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪsəɹ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)

From face (noun) + -er.

facer (plural facers)

1. (slang, obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing.
   • 1856 May, Thomas Hughes, quoting Charles Kingsley, “Prefatory Memoir”, in Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], London: Macmillan and Co., published 1876, →OCLC, page lvi:

     I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one.

2. (slang, by extension) An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.

   Synonym: slap in the face

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 1, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:

     “You're such a snob,” she said, with a provoking laugh; coming from the family he was thought to be snobbish about, this was a bit of a facer.

   • 2024 January 27, Janan Ganesh, “Could there be a liberal demagogue?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:

     He [Joschka Fischer] was for Nato, looser visa rules and—quite the facer for his pacifist colleagues—the bombing of Serbia.

3. (slang) A serving of alcoholic drink; a dram.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edgar Wallace to this entry?)

   Dory […] poured a little whisky into a glass, and grew reminiscent. “I had a facer myself this morning before I came down,” he said.

• (alcoholic drink): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

From face (verb) + -er.

facer (plural facers)

1. (obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.

• farce, EACRF

• faer, fader (Western)
• fer (Mining Basins or literary, archaic)
• ḥacer (Eastern)
• ḥer (Cabrales)

Inherited from Latin facere.

• IPA^(key): /faˈθeɾ/ [faˈθeɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: fa‧cer

facer m (plural faceres)

1. task, chore

   Synonym: buízu

facer

1. to make
2. to do
3. (reflexive) to pretend being

   ¿Yes fatu o fáeste? ― Are you stupid or are you pretending it?

• (to make): crear, producir

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “facer”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “facer”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

• fazer (reintegrationist)
• faer, faguer, fer

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fazer, from Latin facere. Compare Portuguese fazer, Spanish hacer.

• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Hyphenation: fa‧cer

facer (first-person singular present fago, first-person singular preterite fixen, past participle feito)

1. to do, make
2. to cook, prepare

   Synonyms: cociñar, preparar

3. (auxiliary with a verb in the impersonal infinitive as the second object) to cause to
4. (transitive, impersonal) to pass (said of time)
5. (transitive, impersonal) to be; to occur (said of a weather phenomenon)

   Synonym: ir

6. (transitive, followed by the age) to turn a certain age

   A miña filla fixo nove anos onte ― My daughter turned 9 years old yesterday

• afacer
• desfacer
• refacer
• satisfacer

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “fazer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “facer”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “facer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “facer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “facer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “facer”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

From Latin facere.

• IPA^(key): /faˈt͡ser/

facer

1. to do; make

Inherited from Old Spanish fazer, facer, from Latin facere.

• IPA^(key): /faˈθeɾ/ [faˈθeɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /faˈseɾ/ [faˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: fa‧cer

facer (first-person singular present fago, first-person singular preterite fice, past participle fecho)

1. obsolete form of hacer

• “facer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025