| 单词 | beetle-browed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbeetle-browed beetle-browed adj. ‘Having prominent brows,’ Johnson; ‘having black and long eyebrows,’ Bailey (1782); with earlier authorities ‘Having shaggy, bushy, or prominent eyebrows’; see esp. quots. c1540, 15911. Dr. Johnson's explanation probably owes something to the sense attached to beetle v.1 Almost always reproachful, and sometimes in 17th cent. simply = lowering, scowling, sullen, surly. Cf. supercilious adj. 3a < Latin supercilium ‘eyebrow’.extracted from beetleadj.< as lemmas |
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