frounce
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frounce
- /fɹaʊns/
Rhymes with -aʊns
Where it comes from
From Middle English frouncen, from Old French froncir "to wrinkle, frown", from Frankish *hrunkiju (“a wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“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.
noun frounces
- A canker in the mouth of a hawk. The hawke had no lyst To come to his fyst; She loked as she had the frounce; […]
- A plait or curl.
verb frounces · frouncing · frounced
- To curl. Beard untrimmed by barber's shears, Hair all frouncing 'bout his ears,
- To crease, wrinkle, to frown. He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,
- To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.
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title = {frounce},
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