Facer
WordNet
noun
(1) (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced
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Quotations
- 2005 : "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. - Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback, 6)
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Etymology
From , present active infinitive of .