frounce

(使)卷缩

发音

其它 /fɹaʊns/

词形变化

frounces 复数 frounces frounced frounces 三单 frouncing frouncing 现在分词 frounced 过去式 frounced 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A canker in the mouth of a hawk.

  2. 2.

    A plait or curl.

v.
  1. 1.

    To curl.

    及物/不及物 罕用

    Beard untrimmed by barber's shears, Hair all frouncing 'bout his ears,

  2. 2.

    To crease, wrinkle, to frown.

    罕用

    He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,

    "But they know who you are?" I asked, and frounced my brow in skeptical doubt.

  3. 3.

    To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.

词源

From Middle English frouncen, from Old French froncir "to wrinkle, frown", from Frankish *hrunkiju (“a wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Old High German runza "fold, wrinkle, crease" (German Runzel "wrinkle"), Middle Dutch ronse "frown", Old Norse hrukka "wrinkle, crease" (Icelandic hrukka "wrinkle, crease, ruck"). More at ruck₂.

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