beetle-browed
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Adjective
beetle-browed (comparative more beetle-browed, superlative most beetle-browed)
- (especially British English) Making an unfriendly, sullen, or scowling face.
- 2001, “Middle Age: A Romance” by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 173)
- Calling this beetle-browed disdainful young person, hair hanging in her face, jaws chewing pecan pie with mechanical precision, honey!
- 2001, “Middle Age: A Romance” by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 173)
- (especially American English) Having thick, large, or projecting eyebrows.
Related terms
Translations
making an unfriendly or sullen face
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having thick eyebrows
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