Crossword clues for frown
frown
- Lower layer taken in by Le Pen supporters
- Admit being kept under by father displaying severe expression
- Displeased expression
- Sad look
- Unhappy look
- Sourpuss's expression
- Angry expression
- Look unhappy
- What a left parenthesis suggests in an emoticon
- Open parenthesis, in some emoticons
- Make head lines
- Look down (on)
- Emoticon with a left parenthesis
- "Eh, I'm not buying it" look
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frown \Frown\, v. t. To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
Frown \Frown\, n.
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A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stern look; a scowl.
His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.
--Prior.Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.
--H. Coleridge. Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.
Frown \Frown\ (froun), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frowned (fround); p. pr. & vb. n. Frowning.] [OF. froignier, F. frogner, in se refrogner, se renfrogner, to knit the brow, to frown; perh. of Teutonic origin; cf. It. in frigno wrinkled, frowning, Prov. It. frignare to cringe the face, to make a wry face, dial. Sw. fryna to make a wry face,]
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To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
The frowning wrinkle of her brow.
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To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.
The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"contract the brows as an expression of displeasure," late 14c., from Old French frognier "to frown or scowl, snort, turn up one's nose" (preserved in Modern French refrogner), related to froigne "scowling look," probably from Gaulish *frogna "nostril" (compare Welsh ffroen "nose"), with a sense of "snort," or perhaps "haughty grimace." Figurative transitive sense "look with displeasure" is from 1570s. Related: Frowned; frowning.
1580s, from frown (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To have a #Noun on one's face. 2 (context intransitive English) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly. 3 (context transitive English) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.
WordNet
n. a facial expression of dislike or displeasure [syn: scowl]
Wikipedia
A frown (also known as a scowl) is a facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration. The appearance of a frown varies by culture. Although most technical definitions define it as a wrinkling of the brow, in North America it is primarily thought of as an expression of the mouth. In those cases when used iconically, as with an emoticon, it is entirely presented by the curve of the lips forming a down-open curve. The mouth expression is also commonly referred to in the colloquial English phrase "turn that frown upside down" which indicates changing from sad to happy.
Usage examples of "frown".
His brother looked wearied, and his frown only deepened as Agro spoke to him.
To Amphionic music on some Cape sublime, Which frowns above the idle foam of Time.
I pulled onto Amsonia Lane and rumbled toward home, where we frown on interspecies propagation.
She frowned at her watch, evidently deciding that the quickest way to be rid of Andi was to begrudge her a few minutes.
Nom Anor frowned at this, uncomprehending, until a thick twist of black, greasy-looking smoke drifted through the image.
Dark, slashing eyebrows clashed in a frown over the bridge of his nose as Antonio hoped to stave off bad news.
He looked unenthusiastically round the room, and ended up gazing, with a frown, at an apex standing in one corner of the hall, talking to a group of uniformed apices perched on stoolseats around him.
I put Logan in a wheelbarrow and pushed him back up the farm lane to get more apples, frowning and chewing my tongue as I went.
There they sat, still and solemn as the judges of the Areopagus, not relieving the cruel tension by the faintest indication of a smile or a frown.
Rosy recognised as she frowned down at the faded Aubusson rug on the floor.
And frowns and fears from thee, Would not more swiftly flee Than Celtic wolves from the Ausonian shepherds.
And Balder too, the bloodless god looked down On me with frowning glances full of threats.
As Sir Leicester basks in his library and dozes over his newspaper, is there no influence in the house to startle him, not to say to make the very trees at Chesney Wold fling up their knotted arms, the very portraits frown, the very armour stir?
Irritably he noticed that Benjy was still hovering in the hall, so he frowned his piss-off-and-leave-us-alone frown.
Kane frowned slightly and continued to examine the bloodstone ring speculatively.