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face n EDD face sb 2 (10) K; PHILLIPPS, p. 66 for face and eyes.
1 The fleshy part of a cod's head eaten as a delicacy;
CHEEK, JOWL, SCULP (P 133-58).
1979 NEMEC 275n Besides tongues.
hearts and faces or 'jowls,' as well as the membrane ('sound')...
2 The inner or split side of a dried and salted cod-fish
(1925 Dial Notes v, 330).
1955 Nfld Fisheries Board
23 Merchantable [is] sound quality fish, thoroughly clean on back and face, not sour
or showing blood stains, clots, liver, gut or excessive salt on face. T 168/70-65 The
next grade, madeira—that'd be touched with salt, showing the salt on the face, and
thinner quality.
3 A mask worn by mummer; FALSE FACE.
T 26-643 One party of mummers would attack another
party, or sometimes people who weren't mummers would try to get the face off the mummers.
T 169/70-652 We had beautiful faces, sir, beautiful masks. T 210/11-65 They'd
be trying to guess who it was; a scattered time you'd get your face pulled off. T
272-662 After they talked a while they would rise their face and let 'em see
who he was. 1973 WIDDOWSON 424 Well the first thing you'd open the door and a big man
[was] coming in with a nasty-looking face on.
4 Phr face and
eyes: the face.
P 54-61 I told him to his face and eyes. T
94/106-64 He started to run and I went face and eyes in the mud. 1971 CASEY 285 They'd
have served him barbarous. But they used to try to drag him on his face and eyes and
everything.
the face and eyes of (someone): the exact
likeness of.
P 108-70 He's the face and eyes of his father.
5 Comb face-and-eye berry: juniper berry (Juniperus
horizontalis); SAFFRON (1898 J A Folklore xi, 280).
face clock: dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) (1956
ROULEAU 30).
1975 SCOTT 39 The Dandelion has a number of common
names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledor, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.
have the face of a robber's horse: to be brazen, without
shame or pity.
1981 Evening Telegram 6 May, p. 2 'What gall
the minister of finance must have,' said [Steve] Neary. 'He must have the face of a
robber's horse to come into the House [of Assembly] and ask for tax increases.'
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