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beetle-browed

beetle-browed adjective: making an unfriendly, sullen, or scowling face.

Adjective

beetle-browed (comparative more beetle-browed, superlative most beetle-browed)

  1. (British, English, especially) Making an unfriendly, sullen, or scowling face.
    • Calling this beetle-browed disdainful young person, hair hanging in her face, jaws chewing pecan pie with mechanical precision, honey!2001, “Middle Age: A Romance” by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 173)
  2. (especially American English) Having thick, large, or projecting eyebrows.

Forms of beetle-browed

comparativemore beetle-browed
superlativemost beetle-browed

Questions about beetle-browed

What does beetle-browed mean?
Beetle-browed means making an unfriendly, sullen, or scowling face.
What part of speech is beetle-browed?
Beetle-browed is an adjective.

Words near beetle-browed in the dictionary

  1. beetle leaves
  2. beetle mite
  3. beetle mites
  4. beetle nut
  5. beetle nuts
  6. beetle-browed
  7. beetle-crusher
  8. beetle-crushers
  9. beetle-headed
  10. beetle-squasher
  11. beetle-squashers

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