单词 | scowling |
释义 | scowlingadj. a. That scowls; having a sullen or malignant expression of countenance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > [adjective] > frowning or scowling louring13.. felonc1374 frowningc1386 glumming1526 glum1547 scowling1552 dark1593 frowned1598 black1604 glouting1641 frownful1771 black-browed1792 brow-bent1796 frownya1861 afrown1869 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Skowlyng of countenaunce, superciliosus. 1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 15v Then euery skowlyng scholemaster would read with harshie voyce Thy verse. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vi. sig. R5 But Miso..came with skowling eyes to deliuer a slauering good morrow to the two Ladies. a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) iv. i. 290 The Conversation of gentlemen is very Austere, full of scowling grauity. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 259 Daughters, who surveyed her with scouling frighted attention. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xviii. 306 Prue had a peculiar scowling expression of countenance. 1871 W. H. Dixon Tower III. viii. 75 A young man..with sickly face and scowling brow. b. transferred. ΚΠ 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xiii. 19 Or on the scharp craggy rochis hie,..Wyth hingand hewis and mony a skowland bra. 1583 T. Watson Poems (1870) 114 What scowling cloudes haue ouercast the skie. 1727 J. Thomson Summer 61 In rueful Gaze The Cattle stand, and on the scowling Heavens Cast a deploring Eye. 1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 2 Wilt thou change the smiling Erin For the scowling Pictish skies? Derivatives ˈscowlingly adv. with a scowling face. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > [adverb] > frowningly or scowlingly frowningly1556 scowlingly1755 1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. 1838 Fraser's Mag. 18 32 The..beldame..scowlingly opened the door. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > as lemmasˈscowling ˈscowling n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > expression of ill humour > [noun] > frowning or scowling louringa1250 gloominga1400 glumminga1450 gloutingc1460 brow-bending1542 scowling1575 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle i. i. sig. Aii There is howlynge and scowlyng, all cast in adumpe, With whewling and pewling. < adj.1513 as lemmas |
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