| 单词 | rictus smile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrictus smile 2. With reference to a person: a fixed grimace or grin. Also figurative. Also attributive, as rictus grin, rictus smile, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > grimace or distortion mowc1330 mopa1475 mocks and mows1508 murgeons?a1513 face1533 smile1550 smilet1591 mump1592 ruffle1602 frown1608 stitcha1625 grimace1651 grimask1671 simagre1680 moppet1693 distortion1718 throw1790 rictus1827 mug1844 monkey-face1939 1827 London Mag. Dec. 537 An incipient rictus—which not being excited by the sal volatile of his wit—remained in an awful statu quo state of stiffness. 1871 J. Morley J. de Maistre in Crit. Misc. 138 That frightful rictus running from ear to ear. 1894 E. Gosse in Contemp. Rev. Dec. 808 No one could quite tell whether Pater's strange rictus was closer to laughter than tears. 1916 B. King Side of Angels xxx. 299 He only stood and smiled—that awful smile which expressed more anguish than any rictus of pain. a1963 S. Plath Crossing Water (1971) 21 Under the eyes of the stars and the moon's rictus He [sc. an insomniac] suffers his desert pillow. 1988 J. Herbert Haunted xxix. 207 She clutched the edge of the wall.., her rictus grin fixed on Ash. Almost half her body was burned raw. 2001 R. Hill Dialogues of Dead (2002) xxxviii. 407 Pascoe felt the just-a-friendly-chat smile on his face begin to freeze into a rictus. < as lemmas |
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