facer

This would have been a “facer” to any but a true son of Uncle Sam.

I shall bear it well enough presently; but it's an awful facer, old boy.

Take care you don’t get an answer of that sort—a facer, I mean—from the ‘pretty fisher maiden.

This was a facer for the ex-priest, and ere he could frame a retort Jerome took up the matter again.

This was a facer, for the words "Justice of the Peace" had already set me quaking.