See facepalm on Wiktionary
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"text": "[Cue: William Tell Overture] [sound of Frank Zappa's “San Ber'dino” being played on Japanese instruments] [Kevin (the Muse): “Wargh! It SAID _William Tell!”] [Cantata11 (walking up with a koto): “Oof. Sorry. It's just that the girls had gotten warmed up to the other thingy...”] [Kevin: “William _Tell_, 11.” (facepalm)]",
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"text": "“Do you think Carl Sagan might be available?” There was a mass-facepalm. “No.” they chorused.",
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"text": "“Yay! I know you! You're Nicholas Lee, the detective who got fired 'cos of us!” Nina exclaimed happily. Lee facepalmed. “Arrgh...” “Nina...” Tris muttered. “Let's quit while we're ahead, okay?”",
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"1": "en",
"2": "face",
"3": "palm"
},
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"name": "compound"
}
],
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{
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"ref": "1996 June 6, Amy Borden, “SG: Slackers Anonymous #14”, in bit.listserv.superguy (Usenet), retrieved 2017-02-07, message-ID <Pine.SGI.3.91.960606231711.21356A-100000@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>:",
"text": "[Cue: William Tell Overture] [sound of Frank Zappa's “San Ber'dino” being played on Japanese instruments] [Kevin (the Muse): “Wargh! It SAID _William Tell!”] [Cantata11 (walking up with a koto): “Oof. Sorry. It's just that the girls had gotten warmed up to the other thingy...”] [Kevin: “William _Tell_, 11.” (facepalm)]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1996 August 6, General Chaos, “SG: Slackers Anonymous #16 -- “Experienced?””, in bit.listserv.superguy (Usenet), retrieved 2017-02-07, message-ID <Pine.LNX.3.95.960806201148.27196D-100000@eyrie.org>:",
"text": "“Do you think Carl Sagan might be available?” There was a mass-facepalm. “No.” they chorused.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Sara Vance-Hogan, Dies Irae: Love and Friendship, page 243:",
"text": "A look of realization crossed her face; she looked like she may have given herself a face palm if her hands weren't full.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 July 3, Marina Hyde, “A lesson in Olymp-o-nomics”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A gesture of bringing one or both palms to the face, with various interpretations."
],
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"gesture",
"gesture"
],
[
"palm",
"palm"
],
[
"face",
"face"
]
]
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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}
],
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{
"word": "face-palm"
},
{
"word": "face palm"
}
],
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "gesture",
"word": "mà a la cara"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "gesture",
"word": "naamapalmu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "gesture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "main sur le front"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "gesture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "facepalm"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gesture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Stirnklatsch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gesture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Facepalm"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "gesture",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Fazialpalmieren"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "gesture",
"word": "facepalm"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "gesture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "facepalm"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "gesture",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mano sul volto"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mareunsesu",
"sense": "gesture",
"word": "마른세수"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fɛjspálm",
"sense": "gesture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фейспа́лм"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fɛjspám",
"sense": "gesture",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фейспа́м"
}
],
"word": "facepalm"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for review of Japanese translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
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{
"word": "smack one's forehead"
}
],
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"3": "palm"
},
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}
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{
"form": "facepalms",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "facepalming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "facepalmed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "facepalmed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "🤦"
},
{
"word": "🤦♀️"
},
{
"word": "🤦♂️"
}
],
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"categories": [
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],
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{
"ref": "1996 May 15, Jon Robertson, “SG: Remains #2 (2/2)”, in bit.listserv.superguy (Usenet), retrieved 2017-02-07, message-ID <199605160138.VAA00171@datasys.net>:",
"text": "Christie blinked, then *looked* at Steven. “Do you have any idea what might be different?” “Um... No? Christie facepalmed. “Well, her hair was red this morning, right? It's blonde now. You figure it out.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1996 May 21, Jesse Brian Taylor, “SG: Tornado Knights #10 (2/2)”, in bit.listserv.superguy (Usenet), retrieved 2017-02-07, message-ID <199605220257.VAA07240@goliath.vuse>:",
"text": "“Yay! I know you! You're Nicholas Lee, the detective who got fired 'cos of us!” Nina exclaimed happily. Lee facepalmed. “Arrgh...” “Nina...” Tris muttered. “Let's quit while we're ahead, okay?”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To bring the palm of one’s hand to one’s face as an expression of mixed humor and disbelief, disgust or shame; for example, when one is caught off-guard with a particularly bad pun."
],
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[
"palm",
"palm"
],
[
"face",
"face"
],
[
"humor",
"humor"
],
[
"disbelief",
"disbelief"
],
[
"disgust",
"disgust"
],
[
"shame",
"shame"
],
[
"off-guard",
"off-guard"
],
[
"pun",
"pun"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To bring one’s face down to one’s cupped hand or hands."
],
"links": [
[
"cupped",
"cupped"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈfeɪsˌpɑː(l)m/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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}
],
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{
"word": "face-palm"
},
{
"word": "face palm"
}
],
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wǔliǎn",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "捂臉 /捂脸"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yǎnmiàn",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "掩面"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "het gezicht in de handen verbergen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "zich voor de kop slaan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "peittää kasvonsa kämmenellään"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "se taper la main sur le front"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "se taper la tête avec la main"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "die Hände vors Gesicht schlagen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "fazialpalmieren"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "fogja a fejét"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "portare il palmo della mano al volto"
},
{
"alt": "てにかおをうずめる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "te ni kao o uzumeru",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "手に顔を埋める"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sonbadag-eul eolgur-e daeda",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "손바닥을 얼굴에 대다"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "tepuk dahi"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "bring the palm of the hand to the face",
"word": "ta sig för pannan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "bring the face to the palm of the hand",
"word": "het gezicht in de handen verbergen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "bring the face to the palm of the hand",
"word": "haudata kasvonsa kämmeniinsä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "bring the face to the palm of the hand",
"word": "se cacher la tête dans la main"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "bring the face to the palm of the hand",
"word": "kezébe temeti arcát"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"english": "double facepalm",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "bring the face to the palm of the hand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ukryć twarz w dłoniach"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prikrýtʹ licó ladónʹju",
"sense": "bring the face to the palm of the hand",
"word": "прикры́ть лицо́ ладо́нью"
}
],
"word": "facepalm"
}
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"2": "en",
"3": "facepalm"
},
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"name": "ubor"
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"2": "#"
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"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
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}
],
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