| 单词 | to grimace it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto grimace it intransitive. To distort the countenance; to make a wry face; †to put on an affected air. Also, to grimace it. ΘΚΠ 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 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 126 It is only clapping on a suit of sables, grimacing it for a few days, and all, soon forgotten, goes on as before. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man Epil. 76 He nods, they nod; he cringes, they grimace. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. v. 140 I can grimace like a baboon. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. iv. 352 When so much goes grinning and grimacing as a lifeless Formality,..here once more, if nowhere else, is a Sincerity and Reality. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks I. iii. 65 On one spot grimaces the winged lion of St. Mark's, the emblem of Venice. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 188 Solomon stuck his tongue in his cheek, and grimaced. < as lemmas |
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