Facer

n.	1.	One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person. There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers. - Latimer.
	2.	A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy. I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer. - C. Kingsley.
	3.	a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.

Noun

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facer - (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced

Britain, difficulty, GB, Great Britain, UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland