facety, a. slang (orig. Jamaican).
Brit. /ˈfeɪsɪti/, U.S. /ˈfeɪsədi/
[Apparently an alteration of facey adj. (although this is first attested slightly later) with epenthetic t; perhaps compare -ety suffix, or perhaps feisty adj., or perhaps Surinam Creole fiésti dirty, nasty (19th cent.).]
Impudent, arrogant, rude; excessively bold or feisty.
| 1928 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 30 Aug. 17/3 Him mumma pay me two and sixpence fer to tie him up palate lock on account of he cough, but dat facety boy no hold him so still me tie de wrong lock. 1966L. Bennett in Jamaica Labrish 169 We facety Stan' up pon we dignity, An we don't allow nobody Fe teck libarty wid we. 1982 D. Sutcliffe Brit. Black Eng. vi. 154 Her bold-face behaviour is literally facety. 2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon a Time (2001) xii. 288 For fuckries, foolishness. Because a girl gets facety with him in front of his people. |