dogfacen.
/ˈdɒɡfeɪs/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌfeɪs/, /ˈdɑɡˌfeɪs/ 1. A face like that of a dog, or a person having this. Also as a term of abuse. Cf. dog's face n. at dog n.1 Compounds 3d.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [noun] > person having
good face1591
chitty-face1601
dogfacea1627
Lenten chapsa1640
pretty face1675
baby face1726
slape-face1847
pinch-face1911
pizza face1964
zit-face1974
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Changeling (1653) sig. D3 I shall rid my self of two inveterate loathings at one time, Piracquo and his Dog-face.
1710 tr. Lucian Wks. I. 208 What Justice is this..that you should prefer that Egyptian Dog-face [sc. Anubis] before me?
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 613 I came..Only to gratify thee, Dog-face!
1899 Nebraska State Jrnl. 4 Nov. 3/4 He would have been a copperhead, a dogface and a reviler of his country then as he is now.
1955 N. Mosley Rainbearers 266 I hated him the first moment I saw him with his dogface waiting for..disasters.
1976 Nature 15 July 193/2 Papio anubis (dogface baboon) are found in Africa.
1993 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 23 Jan. (Saturday Extra section) 9 He swung the mike stand around..and said..‘Hello dogface!’
2. Either of two North American pierid butterflies of the genus Zerene, the males of which have yellow forewings with dark markings that resemble the profile of a dog's head. More fully dogface butterfly. Frequently with distinguishing word.
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1899 W. J. Holland Butterfly Bk. 288 The dark outer borders..[are] disposed upon the lighter ground color so as to present the appearance of a rude outline of the head of a dog, whence these butterflies have sometimes been called the ‘dog-face butterflies’.
1942 Florida Entomologist 24 76 Zerene caesonia (Stoll.), the Southern Dogface, was the most abundant of all the butterflies.
1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. 214 California dog face: Colias eurydice... Swift in flight.
1993 J. Feltwell Illustr. Encycl. Butterflies 109/2 Zerene cesonia Dog-face butterfly. Named after the characteristic dog face present on the forewing.
3. U.S. slang. A soldier, esp. an infantryman, in the U.S. army.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by nationality > [noun] > American > specific
Jersey blue1758
shirtman1775
Yorker1776
buckskin1783
Indian fighter1824
blue belly1827
greyback1854
Zouave1860
Zou-Zou1860
greycoat1861
grey1862
Johnny1862
Johnny Reb1862
blue1870
blue coat1885
dogface1932
1932 Our Army Dec. 32 He says, kine of slow like,..Hill, they call a soldier a dog-face down hear.
1943 J. Steinbeck in N.Y. Herald Tribune 29 Sept. 21/8 There are too many little religious rules and prejudices [amongst the Arabs in north Africa] that an unsuspecting dogface can run afoul of.
1958 Newsweek 20 Oct. 42 No dogface who dug one [sc. a foxhole] will ever forget his blistered hands and aching back.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Mar. d8 The Army no longer insists on militarily uniform cuts [of meat] that guarantee each dogface precisely the same amount of beef.
2004 Time Out N.Y. 11 Nov. 93/1 The other ‘dogfaces’ behind Lee Marvin's taciturn sergeant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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