frounce

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A canker in the mouth of a hawk.
    — The hawke had no lyst To come to his fyst; She loked as she had the frounce; […]
  2. A plait or curl.
动词 v.
  1. To curl. ambitransitive,rare
    — Beard untrimmed by barber's shears, Hair all frouncing 'bout his ears,
  2. To crease, wrinkle, to frown. rare
    — He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,
  3. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.

词形变化

frounces plural frounces present,singular,third-person frouncing participle,present frounced participle,past frounced past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English frouncen, from Old French froncir "to wrinkle, frown", from Frankish *hrunkiju (“a wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).
Akin to Old High German runza "fold, wrinkle, crease" (German Runzel "wrinkle"), Middle Dutch ronse "frown", Old Norse hrukka "wrinkle, crease" (Icelandic hrukka "wrinkle, crease, ruck"). More at ruck₂.
词源 2
From Middle English frouncen, from Old French froncir "to wrinkle, frown", from Frankish *hrunkiju (“a wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).
Akin to Old High German runza "fold, wrinkle, crease" (German Runzel "wrinkle"), Middle Dutch ronse "frown", Old Norse hrukka "wrinkle, crease" (Icelandic hrukka "wrinkle, crease, ruck"). More at ruck₂.
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