beetle-browed

English

Adjective

beetle-browed (comparative more beetle-browed, superlative most beetle-browed)

(especially British English) Making an unfriendly, sullen, or scowling face.
- 2001, “Middle Age: A Romance” by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 173)
  Calling this beetle-browed disdainful young person, hair hanging in her face, jaws chewing pecan pie with mechanical precision, honey!
(especially American English) Having thick, large, or projecting eyebrows.

Related terms

beetle brow

Translations

making an unfriendly or sullen face

French: sourcilleux (fr)
Manx: ard-volleeagh, trome-volleeagh

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