face-ache
Britishnoun
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neuralgia
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slang an ugly or miserable-looking person
Example Sentences
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In a back room, a high-shouldered man with a face-ache tied up in dirty flannel, who was dressed in old black clothes that bore the appearance of having been waxed, was stooping over his work of making fair copies of the notes of the other two gentlemen, for Mr. Jaggers’s own use.
From Literature
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Britain's first Eurocrats invented the expression "French face-ache" to sum up the effect of long days speaking fiendishly technical French in 1970s Brussels.
From BBC
All the family have colds, except the under-nurse, who has a face-ache.
From Project Gutenberg
Perhaps I should say face-ache.
From Project Gutenberg
It's not Myra; I asked her, and she turned pale at the mere idea of going anywhere alone after dark, and said cook had seen a banshee gliding down the Lady's Walk one night, when she got up for camphor, having the face-ache.
From Project Gutenberg
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