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scowlest

scowlest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of scowl.

Meaning of scowl

Verb

scowl (third-person singular simple present scowls, present participle scowling, simple past and past participle scowled)

  1. (intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
    • She scould, and frownd with froward countenaunce1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35
  2. (broadly, intransitive) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
    • The scowling heavens.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
  3. (transitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
    • to scowl a rival into submission
  4. (transitive) To express by a scowl.
    • to scowl defiance

See all 7 meanings of scowl

Origin of scowlest

scowl + -est

Questions about scowlest

What is scowlest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scowlest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of scowl.

Words near scowlest in the dictionary

  1. scowing
  2. scowl
  3. scowled
  4. scowler
  5. scowlers
  6. scowlest
  7. scowleth
  8. scowlful
  9. scowlier
  10. scowliest
  11. scowlily

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