grimaceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪm.əs/, (now まれに) /ɡɹɪ.ˈmeɪs/^[2]; enPR: grĭm'-əs, grĭ-mās'
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪm.əs/, (now very まれに) /ɡɹɪ.ˈmeɪs/^[2][3]; enPR: grĭm'-əs, grĭ-mās'
• 韻: -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.

名詞

grimace (複数形 grimaces)

1. 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.

2. (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.

派生語

• grimacey

動詞

grimace (三人称単数 現在形 grimaces, 現在分詞 grimacing, 過去形および過去分詞形 grimaced)

1. (intransitive) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

派生語

• grimacer

参考

• gurn

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