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(v)
(intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
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(intransitive) To look or stare with anger.
(adj)
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
(intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.
(intransitive) To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.
(intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
(n)
A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.
(intransitive) To stare angrily.
A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.
Tasting of acidity.
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
To have or express an unfavorable opinion.
Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
Despondent; moody; sullen.
A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
Ellipsis of frowny face. [A simplified representation or emoticon representing a frowning face.]
Alternative form of frowny (“simplified representation of frowning face”).
A simplified representation or emoticon representing a frowning face.
Alternative form of permafrown. [(informal) A permanent frown.]
(anatomy) The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
(informal) A permanent frown.
(anatomy) In vertebrates, especially mammals, the forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
(representing dialect or variant pronunciation) forehead.
(countable) The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
An expression of sadness and disappointment or gloom.
The act of making a face (making a facial expression, often for humor, as a taunt, or to indicate distaste).
(anatomy) A muscle of the forehead, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.
An ornament worn on the forehead.
A froe or frow (cleaving tool).
A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood.
(slang) A facial expression in which the lips are pushed outwards in a pout.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A gloomy or melancholy face.
(rare, in combinations) The state or quality of having a particular type of forehead.
Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.
(representing dialect or variant pronunciation) Forehead.
To turn face-up.
A facial expression considered unacceptable.
(humorous) A large forehead.
(slang) The facial expression made during orgasm.
(adv)
(representing dialect pronunciation) Forward.
A fringe of hair or curls around a woman's forehead.
A flinching motion; a flinch.
A noticeably round face.
General appearance.
Alternative form of moon-face. [A noticeably round face.]
(relational) Of or affecting the face.
A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
A long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.
Obsolete form of frizz. [A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.]
(My Little Pony fandom slang) A facepalm.
(furry fandom) A facepalm.
The formation of a fissure.
The face that is oriented downward.
Alternative form of frizette. [A fringe of hair or curls around a woman's forehead.]
Alternative form of o-face. [(slang) The facial expression made during orgasm.]
A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
(slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
(anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc.
(medicine) Tinea faciei, a fungal infection of the face
(slang, derogatory, especially UK) A fascist, a member of the far-right.
Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
Alternative spelling of fuckface. [(vulgar, derogatory or offensive) An ugly or otherwise undesirable or annoying person.]
Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
The front portion of a dog's face; the muzzle.
(nonstandard) An intense feeling of frustration and anger.
(now dialect and US) A state of worry or alarm.
A distinguishing element of a face, such as an eye, nose, or lips.
(informal) The condition or quality of being frazzled; a frayed end.
A stroke; lash.
(slang) Contraction of afro. [hairstyle characterized by tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.]
The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
(vulgar) The middle finger when raised in an obscene gesture.
(typography) A very bold typeface.
An obscene gesture directed towards another as an insult, made by sticking up the middle finger of a hand.
The act by which something is furled.
To lick a face.
(obsolete) fretfulness; rage
A round, flat face (visage).
(obsolete, dialect, Scotland) A freckle on the skin.
(obsolete) Alternative form of fraughan. [(Ireland) The bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).]
A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.
(medicine, obsolete) A slight fever.