FROUNCE

Definition: FROUNCE

FROUNCE

Intransitive verb

1. To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.

2. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.

Noun

1. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.

2. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FROUNCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Fold

Verb: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute,frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather.

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Crosswords: FROUNCE

Bulgarian 

къдря (crisp, curl, dimple, frizz up, wave). (various references)

Greek 

ρυτιδώ (crimple, wrinkle), βοστρυχώ (frizzle). (various references)

Pig Latin

ouncefray.(various references)

Russian 

завивать (coif, curl, frizz). (various references)

Swedish

vecka (corrugate, crease, Crimp, crinkle, enfold, fold, frill, plait, pleat, ruck, ruffle, sennight, shirr, week), krusa (Crimp, Crinkle, crisp, curl, frizz, frizzle, ripple, stand on ceremony). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "FROUNCE": frounced, frounces. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: confer.

-2 letters: cornu, crone, force, ounce, recon, rouen.

-3 letters: cero, cone, core, corf, corn, cure, curf, curn, ecru, euro, fern, fore, four, froe, once, roue, rune, unco.

-4 letters: con, cor, cue, cur, ecu, eon, ern, fen, fer, feu, foe, fon, for, fou, fro, fun, fur, nor, one, orc, ore, our, rec, ref, roc, roe.

+1 letter: confuter, frounced, frounces, unforced.

+2 letters: cofounder, configure, confiture, confuters, cuneiform, flouncier, unfrocked.

+3 letters: cofounders, configured, configures, confitures, confounder, coniferous, cuneiforms, refocusing, undercroft, unenforced.

+4 letters: cofeaturing, confounders, counterfeit, counterfire, counterflow, counterfoil, countrified, countryfied, farinaceous, fluorescein, fluorescent, fluorescing, microfaunae, perfunctory, prefocusing, reconfigure, refocussing, unconfirmed, undercrofts.

+5 letters: colorfulness, counterfeits, counterfired, counterfires, counterflows, counterfoils, counterforce, counteroffer, fluoresceins, fluorescence, fluorescents, forcefulness, furunculoses, overfocusing, prefocussing, putrefaction, reconfigured, reconfigures, scornfulness, unreinforced.