Grin vs Scowl - What's the difference?
grin | scowl |
A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.
* 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, Simon & Schuster, pages 364:
(lb) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=15 (lb) To express by grinning.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Grinned horrible a ghastly smile.
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*:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins ," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir! "
To show the teeth, like a snarling dog.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:The pangs of death do make him grin .
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
* Spenser
(by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
* Thomson
To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
To express by a scowl.
As nouns the difference between grin and scowl
is that grin is while scowl is the wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.As a verb scowl is
to wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.grin
English
Etymology 1
Before 1000 CE - From (etyl) grinnen, from (etyl) grennian; compare to (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- When the ceremony was finished a wide grin''' broke across his face, and it was that '''grin she saw, relieved and happy all at once.
Verb
(intransitive)citation, passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
Derived terms
* fish-eating grin * pickin' and grinnin' * shit-eating grinSee also
* grimace * smileEtymology 2
(etyl)Anagrams
* ----scowl
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l), (l)Verb
(en verb)- She scowled and frowned with froward countenance.
- The scowling heavens.
- to scowl a rival into submission
- to scowl defiance