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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɡɹɪm.əs/, (now rare) /ɡɹɪˈmeɪs/; enPR: grĭm'-əs, grĭ-mās'
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɡɹɪm.əs/, (now very rare) /ɡɹɪˈmeɪs/; 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 and preferred by dictionaries to the pronunciation with stress on the first syllable, but it is now very rare.

名詞

grimace (plural grimaces)

1. A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.

   Her face was twisted in a grimace of disgust.

   • 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, 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.

派生語

• grimacey

動詞

grimace (third-person singular simple present grimaces, present participle grimacing, simple past and past participle grimaced)

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

派生語

参考

• gurn

参照

Further reading

• grimace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Grimacing on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• Gemaric, Megaric