单词 | to make a mouth |
释义 | > as lemmasto make a (wry, ugly, hard, etc.) mouth (also mouths) a. to make a (wry, ugly, hard, etc.) mouth (also mouths): to make a face, esp. to express disapproval, derision, etc., by a grimace or other facial distortion; (of an animal) to menace with the mouth; (figurative) to refuse to believe or accept. Also with at, upon. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [verb (intransitive)] > grimace with to make a (wry, ugly, hard, etc.) mouth (also mouths)1551 mump1577 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia i. sig. Ei And as he was thus saying he shaked his heade, & made a wrie mouth. 1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 69 Me thinkes I see the make a mowthe At certayne Tuscane brave conceites. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 239 Counterfait sad lookes: Make mouthes vpon mee, when I turne my back: Winke each at other. View more context for this quotation 1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune ii. i. 19 I desire you to..make ugly mouths, laugh aloud, and look back at me. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 481. ¶3 They say he's a warm Man, and does not care to be made Mouths at. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xi. 58 He made at times so many different mouths of contempt, that I thought it was impossible for the same features to express them. 1797 R. Cumberland tr. Aristophanes Clouds 87 Mark how the ideot quibbles upon hanging, Driv'ling and making mouths. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. iv. 7 How long, now, would the roughest marketman..Harass a mutton ere she made a mouth Or menaced biting? 1870 ‘F. Fern’ Ginger-snaps 231 I find that nobody makes mouths at you for being a Unitarian, or an Episcopalian. 1928 J. Buchan Runagates Club xii. 329 ‘Shall we exchange?’ Leithen asked. She made a mouth. ‘Borrowby would crush me.’ 1967 T. Keneally Bring Larks xv. 121 He could safely raise an eyebrow or make a mouth at Mr Blythe's image. < as lemmas |
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