redfaced

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A form of red-faced — Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, face.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveredfaced (comparative more redfaced, superlative most redfaced)

comparative more redfaced · superlative most redfaced

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of red-faced.

    I had scarcely fallen into my most promising attitude, and dipped my pen in the ink, when I found the clock upon the pier—a redfaced clock with a white rim—importuning me in a highly vexatious manner to consult my watch, and see how I was off for Greenwich time.

    1856, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 13, page 553
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