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screwface en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From screw + face.

Meanings

1. (Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang) A contorted facial expression of anger, frustration, or aggression.
   • “Oh, and tell your girl to stop giving me the screwface.” 2005, Tracy M. Bush, A Blues for Mary, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 134:
   • Klinsmann had to know from observing the cranky screwface Dempsey displayed in public that this was no moonbeam of a player. 2014, George Vecsey, Eight World Cups: My Journey through the Beauty and Dark Side of Soccer, Times Books, →ISBN, page 249:
   • She put on a screwface—an unfriendly facial contortion that denotes anger and frustration—then broke into the chant of a popular reggae protest song. 2011, Alvin Glen Edwards, Once in an Island, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 38:

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Deriveds

screwfaced

Synonyms

grimace

screwface en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From screw + face.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, transitive) To make a screwface (at someone).
   • 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. 2020, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, London: 4th Estate, →ISBN, page 113:

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