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

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

Example Sentences

Late that afternoon a beetle-browed and forbidding-looking individual entered Brown's office.

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He was an iron-faced, beetle-browed, stern man, and this morning he did not seem to be in the best of tempers.

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We have often wondered how one university could possibly corner the entire supply of treacherous and beetle-browed humanity.

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It was a signal, though, for a thick-set beetle-browed young fellow to bounce in from the next room and curtly demand my business.

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I found it without difficulty—a long, low-fronted, beetle-browed farmhouse, lying back a meadow's length from the road.

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