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beetle-browed

[beet-l-broud]

adjective

  1. having heavy projecting eyebrows.

  2. scowling or sullen.



beetle-browed

adjective

  1. having bushy or overhanging eyebrows

  2. sullen in appearance; scowling

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of beetle-browed1

1325–75; Middle English bitel-browed, probably with bitel sharp(-edged), Old English *bitel ( beetle 1 ); brow, -ed 3

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