frown

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɹaʊ̯n/    美 /ˈfɹaʊ̯n/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.
    — Philip had once told him of a man who had a horse-shoe frown, and Tom had tried with all his frowning-might to make a horse-shoe on his forehead
  2. A downturn of the corners of the mouth, typically expressing sadness. Canada,US
    — The smile and the frown are both indicated and the operation of a motor driven flasher causes the face to look happy and sad in turn.
  3. Any facial expression that indicates disapproval or displeasure.
动词 v.
  1. To have a frown on one's face. intransitive
    — She frowned when I told her the news.
  2. To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly. figuratively,intransitive
    — Noisy gossip in the library is frowned upon.
  3. To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look. transitive
    — Let us frown the impudent fellow into silence.
  4. To communicate by frowning. transitive
    — Frank frowned his displeasure with my proposal.

词形变化

frowns plural frowns present,singular,third-person frowning participle,present frowned participle,past frowned past

词汇关系

近义词
scowl
衍生词
frownful frownless frownsome frowny permafrown turn the frown upside down afrown frown at frowner frown on frown upon outfrown

词源

词源 1
From Middle English frown, froun (“a threatening appearance; lowering of the clouds”), from frounen (“to frown”). See below.
词源 2
From Middle English frounen (“to frown as an expression of disapproval, displeasure, shame, fear, or jealousy”), from Old French froignier, froingnier, frognier (“to wrinkle the mouth or forehead, frown, scowl”), of uncertain and disputed origin. Perhaps from Medieval Latin fruncāre (“to wrinkle, crease, turn up one's nose, make a face, frown”) (compare Old High German fruncetura (“wrinkle”), via Latin), from Frankish *hrunkwittjā (“wrinkle”)/*hrunkwōn (“to wrinkle”), whence Old High German runza (“wrinkle”). See also French froncer (“to frown, scowl”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Gaulish *frognā (“nostril”), from Proto-Celtic *srognā (“nose”).
Still yet, perhaps of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fryna (“to frown, frown with one's nose, make a wry face”), Norwegian frøyna (“to wrinkle up one's nose, make a wry face; snort”). Compare also dialectal English frine (“to frown, whine, complain”).
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