screwface
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editscrewface (plural screwfaces)
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A contorted facial expression of anger, frustration, or aggression.
- Synonym: grimace
Derived terms
edit- screwfaced (adjective)
Verb
editscrewface (third-person singular simple present screwfaces, present participle screwfacing, simple past and past participle screwfaced)
- (intransitive, transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To make a screwface (at someone).
- 2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 113:
- When it’s done, I leave the lecture theatre screwfacing anyone who tries watching me and they look away quicktime and no one says nothing.
Further reading
edit- “screwface n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “screwface”, in The Right Rhymes, launched 2013.