Meaning

2 senses
  1. 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.

    die Hände vors Gesicht schlagen, fazialpalmieren

    прикры́ть лицо́ ладо́ньюprikrýtʹ licó ladónʹju

  2. To bring one’s face down to one’s cupped hand or hands.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
bring the face to the palm of the hand:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
bring the palm of the hand to the face:

Origin

From face + palm. Attested since at least 2001.

From face + palm. Attested since at least 2001.

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Forms

facepalms, facepalming, facepalmed, facepalmed
Base formfacepalm · to facepalm
3rd person singularfacepalms
Present participlefacepalming
Past simplefacepalmed
Past participlefacepalmed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfacepalm
he, she, itfacepalms

Past simpleLesson

all personsfacepalmed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave facepalmed
he, she, ithas facepalmed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill facepalm

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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