Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having thick, prominent or projecting eyebrows.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having shaggy, bushy, prominent, or overhanging eyebrows; hence, often, sullen; scowling.
- Figuratively, having an overhanging or projecting top.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective making an
unfriendly orsullen face
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective sullen or unfriendly in appearance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The apes are adorable, particularly beetle-browed Go-Go.
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All that has done is provide us with a rich trove of oddball entertainment ranging from Sarah Palin's dithery dead-fish metaphors to the beetle-browed death threats of G. Gordon Liddy and the blatant racism of Pat Buchanan.
Summer Rerun 2009
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My horse, inaptly named Pegasus, brings me to the base of Ahu Tepeu, a magnificent beetle-browed statue crowned with a red stone headdress weighing eleven tons.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part II of II) Richard Bangs 2011
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The apes are adorable, particularly beetle-browed Go-Go.
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Slender and sinister: think of Tessio in The Godfather, beetle-browed and suspicious of everything that breathes.
Charlie Carillo: Dinner for Two, For One Charlie Carillo 2011
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My horse, inaptly named Pegasus, brings me to the base of Ahu Tepeu, a magnificent beetle-browed statue crowned with a red stone headdress weighing eleven tons.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part II of II) Richard Bangs 2011
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Slender and sinister: think of Tessio in The Godfather, beetle-browed and suspicious of everything that breathes.
Charlie Carillo: Dinner for Two, For One Charlie Carillo 2011
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With the help of a pinch of fossil bone dust, scientists have discovered that modern human beings interbred with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago, and that 1 to 4 percent of the genes carried by non-African people are traceable to the much-caricatured, beetle-browed cavemen.
Ancient DNA shows interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthal 2010
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With the help of a pinch of fossil bone dust, scientists have discovered that modern human beings interbred with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago, and that 1 to 4 percent of the genes carried by non-African people are traceable to the much-caricatured, beetle-browed cavemen.
Ancient DNA shows interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthal 2010
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With the help of a pinch of fossil bone dust, scientists have discovered that modern human beings interbred with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago, and that 1 to 4 percent of the genes carried by non-African people are traceable to the much-caricatured, beetle-browed cavemen.
Ancient DNA shows interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthal 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word beetle-browed
I can't say that I've paid all that much attention to a beetle's brows.
May 23, 2022