facetiousli.html - n.pl.
1 pleasantries, witticisms.
2 (in bookselling) pornography. [L, pl. of facetia jest f. facetus witty]

facetiousli.html - adj.
1 characterized by flippant or inopportune humour.
2 (of a person) intending to be amusing, esp. inopportunely.

facetiously adv. facetiousness n. [F fac÷tieux f. fac÷tie f. L facetia jest]

facetiousli.html - n.
1 a particular aspect of a thing.
2 one side of a many-sided body, esp. of a cut gem.
3 one segment of a compound eye.

faceted adj. (also in comb.). [F facette dimin. (as FACE, -ETTE)]

facetiousli.html - n.pl.
1 pleasantries, witticisms.
2 (in bookselling) pornography. [L, pl. of facetia jest f. facetus witty]

facetiousli.html - adj.
1 characterized by flippant or inopportune humour.
2 (of a person) intending to be amusing, esp. inopportunely.

facetiously adv. facetiousness n. [F fac÷tieux f. fac÷tie f. L facetia jest]

facetiousli.html - See: BLUE IN THE FACE, CUT OFF ONE'S NOSE TO SPITE ONE'S FACE, FLY IN THE FACE OF, HATCHET FACE, HIDE ONE'S FACE, IN ONE'S FACE, IN THE FACE OF, LONG FACE, LOOK IN THE EYE or LOOK IN THE FACE, MAKE A FACE, ON THE FACE OF IT, SAVE FACE, SET ONE'S FACE AGAINST, SHOOT OFF ONE'S MOUTH or SHOOT OFF ONE'S FACE, SHOW ONE'S FACE, SLAP IN THE FACE, STARE IN THE FACE, STRAIGHT FACE, THROW IN ONE'S FACE, TO ONE'S FACE.