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frounce
English
Etymology
From Middle English frouncen, from Old French froncir "to wrinkle, frown", from Frankish *hrunkja (“a wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkij?, *hrunkit? (“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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?a?ns/
Noun
frounce (plural frounces)
- A canker in the mouth of a hawk.
- A plait or curl.
Translations
Verb
frounce (third-person singular simple present frounces, present participle frouncing, simple past and past participle frounced)
- (rare, transitive, intransitive) To curl.
- 1879, Harmon Seeley Babcock, "The Peanut Man", in Trifles, Providence Press Company (1879), page 43:
- Beard untrimmed by barber's shears,
- Hair all frouncing 'bout his ears,
- 1887, Julian Corbett, For God and Gold, Macmillan and Co (1887), page 214:
- As though to give him a warlike note, his clothes were thrown on in a slovenly way, and his moustache frounced out so shock and bristling that it seemed from each hair-end a crackling oath must start with every word he said.
- 1888, Charles M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, Volume 1, Cambridge (1888), page 498:
- Under the day-long beating of the sun their brow is frounced out, […]
- 1983, Carolly Erickson, The First Elizabeth, St. Martin's Griffin (1997), ?ISBN, page 307:
- The unruly, shoulder-length hair of the redeemed made a strong contrast to the well-tended coiffures of fashionable men, who "frounced their hair with curling irons" and wore long "love locks" tied with ribbons or silk favors.
- 2012, Carolyn Meyer, The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots, Harcourt (2012), ?ISBN, page 107:
- My hairdresser stopped coming. Fortunately, my friend Seton had always enjoyed frouncing my hair, and she readily took up the responsibility, fixing my hair in a different style every day.
- 1879, Harmon Seeley Babcock, "The Peanut Man", in Trifles, Providence Press Company (1879), page 43:
- (rare) To crease, wrinkle, to frown.
- 1871, George Mac-Henry, Time and Eternity: A Poem, A L Bancroft and Company (1871), page 42:
- He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye
- Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,
- 1885, "The Old Corner Shop: A Story of Very Poor Humanity", The Phrenological Magazine, December 1885:
- Mury, however, frounced her brows, and made Sir Tyke Winchap's niece a profound courtesy behind her back.
- 2000, Patrick Madden, "Down on Batlle's Farm", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2000, page 160:
- "But they know who you are?" I asked, and frounced my brow in skeptical doubt.
- 1871, George Mac-Henry, Time and Eternity: A Poem, A L Bancroft and Company (1871), page 42:
- To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.
Translations
Anagrams
- unforce
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frounced
English
Verb
frounced
- simple past tense and past participle of frounce
Anagrams
- unforced
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