"ecaf" meaning in All languages combined

See ecaf on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: ecafs [plural]
Etymology: From face via backslang. Head templates: {{en-noun}} ecaf (plural ecafs)
  1. (back slang) A person's face. Categories (topical): Face Related terms: eek

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From face via backslang.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ecafs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ecaf (plural ecafs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Face",
          "orig": "en:Face",
          "parents": [
            "Head and neck",
            "Body parts",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "All topics",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
            "Health"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Jean Shrimpton, Jean Shrimpton:",
          "text": "He was very camp, and used all that weird gay backslang of the fifties[.] ‘Clock the ecaf, dear!’ they would say (look at the face).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, K. Porter; J. Weeks, Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885–1967, said by Alex",
          "text": "If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Viper, producer Maddsnake, \"Honor Amongst Thieves\", in Pussy Boy Ill Kill Ya (All I Need Is Tha Money)",
          "text": "I better not see you on my street / If I do, you gone see plenty heat / And let them bullets come straight at your ecaf / At your emod, cause you was a disgracе."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person's face."
      ],
      "id": "en-ecaf-en-noun-iaSzUeB2",
      "links": [
        [
          "face",
          "face"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "back slang",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(back slang) A person's face."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "eek"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ecaf"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From face via backslang.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ecafs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ecaf (plural ecafs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "eek"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English back slang",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Face"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Jean Shrimpton, Jean Shrimpton:",
          "text": "He was very camp, and used all that weird gay backslang of the fifties[.] ‘Clock the ecaf, dear!’ they would say (look at the face).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, K. Porter; J. Weeks, Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men 1885–1967, said by Alex",
          "text": "If you had too much slap on when you went out . . . your mates say too much slap on your ecaf. Yeah. Oh really girl? Yes . . . Go in the lavs here and have a look."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Viper, producer Maddsnake, \"Honor Amongst Thieves\", in Pussy Boy Ill Kill Ya (All I Need Is Tha Money)",
          "text": "I better not see you on my street / If I do, you gone see plenty heat / And let them bullets come straight at your ecaf / At your emod, cause you was a disgracе."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person's face."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "face",
          "face"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "back slang",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(back slang) A person's face."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ecaf"
}

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