grimace
English
Etymology
From 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
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- 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
grimace (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.
- 2005 March, Opera News:
- (obsolete) Affectation, pretence.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 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 2016, p. 21:
- Charlotte was equally insensible to all his fashionable grimace, and indifferent to his conversation.
- 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 105:
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Verb
grimace (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
References
- ^ 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
- grimace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:Grimacing on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Middle French grimace, from Old French grimace, grimuche (“a contorted or wry face, grotesque countenance”), from grime (“mask”) (with the pejorative suffix -ace, 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
Noun
grimace f (plural grimaces)
Derived terms
Descendants
Verb
grimace
- inflection of grimacer:
Further reading
- “grimace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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