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eyebrowing

eyebrowing is the present participle and gerund of eyebrow.

Meaning of eyebrow

Verb

eyebrow (third-person singular simple present eyebrows, present participle eyebrowing, simple past and past participle eyebrowed)

  1. (intransitive) To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.
  2. (transitive) To signal with one's eyebrows.
    • Rodas watched Tinker disappear through the door before eyebrowing a question at Barrow. Barrow gestured at him to stay put. Rodas settled back.2015, Kathy Reichs, Bones Never Lie, page 23

See all 6 meanings of eyebrow

Noun

eyebrowing (uncountable)

  1. The buildup of waste fibers on a spinning frame.

Questions about eyebrowing

What does eyebrowing mean?
Eyebrowing means the buildup of waste fibers on a spinning frame.
What is eyebrowing the present participle and gerund of?
Eyebrowing is the present participle and gerund of eyebrow.
What part of speech is eyebrowing?
Eyebrowing is a noun.

Words near eyebrowing in the dictionary

  1. eyebrow-raising
  2. eyebrow-raisings
  3. eyebrowed
  4. eyebrowed thrush
  5. eyebrowed thrushes
  6. eyebrowing
  7. eyebrowless
  8. eyebrowlessness
  9. eyebrowlike
  10. eyebrown
  11. eyebrowns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eyebrowing (page history and authors); eyebrow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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