frown

• vi.顔をしかめる；意見を異にする
• vt.顔をしかめる、顔をしかめる
• n. しかめる、顔をしかめる

古フランス語のfrognier「顔をしかめる」「うなる」から。鼻をフンフン鳴らす音を真似て不満を表現する擬音語から来ている可能性がある。frownから派生。

frown

frown: [14] Probably the underlying notion of frowning is ‘snorting’ rather than ‘wrinkling the brows’. It comes from Old French froignier, which meant ‘snort’ as well as ‘frown’. It is assumed to have been adopted into French from a Celtic language of Gaul, and would therefore have been related to Welsh ffroen ‘nostril’.

frown (v.)

"contract the brows as an expression of displeasure," late 14c., from Old French frognier "to frown or scowl, snort, turn up one's nose" (preserved in Modern French refrogner), related to froigne "scowling look," probably from Gaulish *frogna "nostril" (compare Welsh ffroen "nose"), with a sense of "snort," or perhaps "haughty grimace." Figurative transitive sense "look with displeasure" is from 1570s. Related: Frowned; frowning.

frown (n.)

1580s, from frown (v.).

1. The smile disappeared to be replaced by a doleful frown .

笑顔が消え、代わりに哀しい眉が浮かんだ。

2.There was a deep frown on the boy 's face.

ボーイ眉頭ロック.

3.Billy 's eyebrows knitted together in a little frown .

ビリーは眉頭を少しシワにした。

4.His forehead knotted in a frown .

彼は眉間にしっかりと鍵をかけている。

5.A frown formed between her arched brows.

彼女は2つのまゆをしかめた。