grimace
English
editEtymology
editFrom French grimace,[1] from Middle French grimace, from Old French grimace, grimuche, from grime (“mask”) (with the pejorative suffix -ace, from Latin -āceus), from Frankish *grīma, *grīmō (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask, helmet”). Cognate with Old English grīma (“mask, visor, helmet, spectre, apparition”). More at grime.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɪm.əs/, (now rare) /ɡɹɪ.ˈmeɪs/;[2] enPR: grĭm'-əs, grĭ-mās'
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɪm.əs/, (now very rare) /ɡɹɪ.ˈmeɪs/;[2][3] enPR: grĭm'-əs, grĭ-mās'
- Rhymes: -eɪs
- The pronunciation with stress on the second syllable was the usual one in the 1700s and 1800s, found in poetry[4] and preferred by dictionaries to the pronunciation with stress on the first syllable,[5] but it is now very rare.
Noun
editgrimace (plural grimaces)
- A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.
- 2005 March, Opera News:
- I trundle off to bed, eyes brimming, face twisted into a grateful glistening grimace, and awaken the next day wondering what all the fuss was about.
- (obsolete) Affectation, pretence.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 105:
- Zeluco considered all this as mere affectation and grimace, and was convinced that she would, in due time, unfold the particular mode in which she wished to be indemnified […] .
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge, published 2016, page 21:
- Charlotte was equally insensible to all his fashionable grimace, and indifferent to his conversation.
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Verb
editgrimace (third-person singular simple present grimaces, present participle grimacing, simple past and past participle grimaced)
- (intransitive) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “grimace”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “grimace”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “grimace”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ For example, Scottish poet Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), in a poem, rhymes "na: rather gleefu' turn your face, / forsake hypocrisy, grimace". John Mitchell, in a work published in 1838, rhymes "without a hindrance or grimace, / a ready grave in every face".
- ^ For example, The Orthoëpist: A Pronouncing Manual (1880) by Alfred Ayres.
Further reading
edit- grimace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:Grimacing on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French grimace, from Old French grimace, grimuche (“a contorted or wry face, grotesque countenance”), from grime (“mask”) + -ace (pejorative suffix; from Latin -āceus), from Old Frankish *grīma, *grīmo (“mask”), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask, helmet, cover, night”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrey- (“to strip, paint, smear”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grime (“mask”), Old Saxon grīma (“mask”), Old English grīma (“mask”), Old Norse gríma (“mask, helmet, night”). More at grime.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgrimace f (plural grimaces)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Dutch: grimas
- → English: grimace
- → German: Grimasse f
- → Russian: гримаса (grimasa)
- → Swedish: grimas
Verb
editgrimace
- inflection of grimacer:
Further reading
edit- “grimace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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