facial hair

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Hair on, or from, the face of a human, such as the eyebrows, beard or moustache. uncountable,usually
    — Shaving gear? The man had a beard—or he had one the last time Marianne had seen him. And yet there were flecks of shaving foam and facial hair in the sink.
  2. Hair on, or from, the face of an animal. uncountable,usually
  3. A single hair on, or from, the face. countable,rare,usually
    — Wielding a cotton bud like a miniature police truncheon, she pointed to one small black hair I’d never noticed sprouting from my chin. It looked, in the magnified looking glass, like a sequoia tree. / ‘Where the hell did that come from?’ / ‘It’s normal as we age that . . .’ / ‘Would you stop with all this ageing crap, already. I have one facial hair. It’s not as though I’m about to start baying at the moon . . .’

词形变化

facial hairs plural

词源

From facial + hair. First use appears c. 1830, in the Morning Herald.
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