2005 : "You're such a snob," she said, with a provoking laugh; coming from the family he was thought to be snobbish about, this was a bit of a facer. - Alan Hollinghurst, , (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback, 6)
(obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a falseshow; a bold-faced person.
(obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
Charles KingsleyI should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer.
