noun
- a person with a pale, sickly complexion
Usage: archaic; literary
Examples
- The old woman called him a wheyface for his ghostly pallor.
- Shakespeare’s characters often mocked wheyfaces in his plays.
- The sickly child was teased as a wheyface by his classmates.
- Her wheyface appearance suggested she had been ill for weeks.
- The term wheyface refers to someone as pale as whey, the watery part of milk.