different between pucker vs frown

English

Etymology

Probable alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag").

Verb

pucker (third-person singular simple present puckers, present participle puckering, simple past and past participle puckered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
   • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".

     He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple.

   • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 13.

     The conduct of the white strangers it was that caused him the greatest perturbation. He puckered his brows into a frown of deep thought.

Derived terms

• pucker up

Translations

Noun

pucker (plural puckers)

1. A fold or wrinkle.
   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, Chapter 3.

     The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids.

2. (colloquial) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd.

     What a pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!"

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?a?n/

• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English frown, froun (“a threatening appearance; lowering of the clouds”), from frounen (“to frown”). See below.

Noun

frown (plural frowns)

1. A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration.
2. A facial expression in which the corners of the mouth are pointed down.

Derived terms

• permafrown

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English frounen (“to frown as an expression of disapproval, displeasure, shame, fear, or jealousy”), from Old French frognier (“to frown or scowl”), from Gaulish *frogn? (“nostril”), from Proto-Celtic *srogn?.

Verb

frown (third-person singular simple present frowns, present participle frowning, simple past and past participle frowned)

1. (intransitive) To have a frown on one's face.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.
3. (transitive) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.

4. (transitive) To communicate by frowning.

Synonyms

• scowl

Derived terms

• frown at
• frown on
• frown upon

Translations

Welsh

Adjective

frown

1. Soft mutation of brown.

Mutation