/skaʊl/
OriginFrom Middle English scowlen, scoulen, skoulen (also as Middle English schoulen), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish skule (“to scowl”), Norwegian skule (“to scowl”).
- The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
- broadlyGloom; dark or threatening aspect.
“Mr. Pynsent, who had asked Miss Amory to dance, came up on one occasion to claim her hand, but scowls of recognition having already passed between him and Mr. Arthur Pendennis in the dancing-room, Art”
- UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountableOld workings of iron ore.
- intransitiveTo wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
“She scould, and frownd with froward countenaunce”
- broadly, intransitiveTo look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
- transitiveTo look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
“to scowl a rival into submission”
- transitiveTo express by a scowl.
Formsscowls(plural) · scowls(present, singular, third-person) · scowling(participle, present) · scowled(participle, past) · scowled(past)