Wednesday, April 23, 2008

scowling


Scowled

Definition: to contract the forehead in displeasure; frown, glower, have an angry or gloomy facial expression

Etymology: 1340, from a Scand. source (cf. Norw. skule "look furtively, squint, look embarrassed," Dan. skule "to scowl"). Probably related to O.E. sceolh "wry, oblique," O.H.G. scelah "curved," Ger. scheel "squint-eyed;" from PIE base *sqel- "crooked, curved, bent." The noun is attested from 1500.

Sentence:I always feel my father scowling at me whenever that cat's around the place. ...

Choo Han Yang Ernest (4) 1-6

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