face-ache

British  

noun

1. neuralgia

2. slang an ugly or miserable-looking person

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Example Sentences

I owe a painful face-ache, which oppresses me at this moment, to a cold caught, sitting by her, one day in last July, at this receipt of coolness.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various

But there she was in the wilderness of a house, with only a dejected English teacher suffering from chronic face-ache, and another scholar, younger than herself, for company.

From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]

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

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie

The bad cold and face-ache, subsequent on her adventure in the snow, had seriously interfered with her plans for the holidays, and she had not accomplished half she intended to do in the time.

From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley

That evening Thomasin had another spasm of face-ache and went to bed soon after drinking tea.

From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden