Dictionary entry

Facer

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fa″cer (fā″sẽr), n. 1. One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.

There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers. Latimer.

2. A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.

I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer. C. Kingsley.