Etymology

outface

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Today it means: To disconcert someone with an unblinking face-to-face confrontation; to stare down; to withsay Full definition →

English face ← Middle English face ← Old French face
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úd
  2. Proto-Germanic*ūt
  3. Proto-Germanic*ūt-
  4. Old Englishūt-
  5. Middle Englishut-
  6. Englishout-
  7. Latinfaciēs
  8. Late Latinfacia
  9. Old Frenchface
  10. Middle Englishface
  11. Englishface
  12. English todayoutface

From out- + face.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.