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face-ache

noun

  1. neuralgia
  2. slang.
    an ugly or miserable-looking person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Mr. Lewes is still sadly ailing—tormented with tooth and face ache.

Frank never makes acquaintance with a new old woman, but she gets the face-ache.

The kitchen-maid came next—afflicted with the face-ache, and making no secret of her sufferings.

I am going to the medicine-chest next, to physic the kitchen-maid—an unwholesome girl, whose face-ache is all stomach.

And don't none of you eat it too fast, or it'll give you a face-ache, 'cause it's awful cold.

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