† snowrev.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To frown or scowl. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > face with expression [verb (intransitive)] > distort
fleer?a1400
mowc1450
snowrec1450
to make (also pull) a facec1522
to throw one's facea1525
pot1549
mop1567
murgeonc1586
to cut facesa1616
wrimple1657
work1753
grimace1762
mowl1837
wrinkle1843
mug1856
girn1900
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 326 And if þou be wed þou may happen wed a shrew at will be þi maister, and þou bus..suffer many grete wurd & say nothyng agayn, & hafe a snowryng cowntenance.
1508 Mayd Emlyn 177 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 89 Whan she dothe loure, And begynneth to snowre.
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1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes lix, in Wks. sig. Ddv Small diffrence betweene lowryng and snowryng.
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