beetle-browed

English

Adjective

beetle-browed (comparative more beetle-browed, superlative most beetle-browed)

1. (especially British English) Making an unfriendly, sullen, or scowling face.
   • 2001, “Middle Age: A Romance” by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 173)

     Calling this beetle-browed disdainful young person, hair hanging in her face, jaws chewing pecan pie with mechanical precision, honey!

2. (especially American English) Having thick, large, or projecting eyebrows.

Related terms

• beetle brow

Translations

making an unfriendly or sullen face

• French: sourcilleux (fr)
• Manx: ard-volleeagh, trome-volleeagh