| 单词 | to throw one's face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto throw one's face (also mouth, etc.) b. transitive. Originally and chiefly Scottish. to throw one's face (also mouth, etc.): to contort one's face or mouth, typically as a reaction to pain or an expression of unhappiness, anger, etc.; to grimace. Now rare.In quot. 1955 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > face with expression [verb (intransitive)] > distort fleer?a1400 mowc1450 snowrec1450 to make (also pull) a facec1522 to throw one's facea1525 pot1549 mop1567 murgeonc1586 to cut facesa1616 wrimple1657 work1753 grimace1762 mowl1837 wrinkle1843 mug1856 girn1900 a1525 Bk. Sevyne Sagis l. 240 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 8 With that ye barne scho wald haf kist He threwe ye face and gart hir mist. 1621 in R. D. McEwan Old Glasgow Weavers (1908) 67 Thrawing his faice and grinning dispytfullie. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 31 They gave a gaunt and then they sobed, They threw there faces like Babowns. 1722 A. Ramsay Fables & Tales 16 He threw his Gab and girn'd. 1774 Mevis 85 Whene'er a civil kiss I seek, She turns her head, and thraws her cheek. 1823 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 312/1 Ye're something ill for thrawing your mou' at Providence now and then. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words at Thraa ‘Thraa the mooth’—to twist the mouth, to make a wry face. 1908 Westminster May 327/1 Put thae dirt in yer pocket, sir, and dinna thraw yer face. 1955 W. P. Milne Eppie Elrick xii. 121 Ye canna stan being jobbit wi a new sark withoot thraain yer face. < as lemmas |
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