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单词 moues
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moue

noun

ˈmü How to pronounce moue (audio)
: a little grimace : pout
made a moue of disappointment

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Moue is one of two similar words in English that refer to a pout or grimace; the other is mow, which is pronounced to rhyme either with no or now. Mow and moue share the same origin—the Anglo-French mouwe—and have a distant relationship to a Middle Dutch word for a protruding lip. (They do not, however, share a relationship to the word mouth, which derives from Old English mūth.) While current evidence of moue in use in  English traces back only a little more than 150 years, mow dates all the way back to the 14th century. Moue has also seen occasional use as a verb, as when Nicholson Baker, in a 1988 issue of The New Yorker, described how a woman applying lip gloss would "slide the lip from side to side under it and press her mouth together and then moue it outward…."

Synonyms

  • face
  • frown
  • grimace
  • lower
  • lour
  • mouth
  • mow
  • mug
  • pout
  • scowl
  • snoot
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Example Sentences

a moue of distaste at the display of bad manners
Recent Examples on the Web In her trademark cat-eye glasses, with her bitter-lemon moue, Hoffman, as Moth, is comedy just standing there; Harada, as Mustardseed, a warmth machine. New York Times, 24 Oct. 2021 Not just any moue, either, but a supermoue—a whole cultural attitude distilled into a single boffff. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2020 Pennywise, who sometimes takes the form of a giant spider-like monster, and whose pouty moue can suddenly sprout rows of sharp, brownish fangs, both feeds and feeds upon ordinary human viciousness. New York Times, 3 Sep. 2019

Word History

Etymology

French, from Middle French — more at mow

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

moues

noun

plural of moue
as in grimaces
a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval a moue of distaste at the display of bad manners

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • grimaces
  • scowls
  • frowns
  • pouts
  • mouths
  • smirks
  • looks
  • lours
  • snoots
  • sneers
  • stares
  • growls
  • faces
  • winces
  • mows
  • lowers
  • snarls
  • simpers
  • squinches
  • glares
  • glowers
  • flinches
  • mugs
  • scoffs
  • rictuses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • smiles
  • grins
  • laughs
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