Definitions For Frounce

Verb

frounc (rare, ambitransitive) To curl. (rare) To crease, wrinkle, to frown. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.

Translations

to curl, curl to crease, wrinkle, frown

Noun

FROUNCE (plural FROUNCEs) A canker in the mouth of a hawk. A plait or curl.

Translations

Finnish: trikomonoosi

Etymology

From Middle English frouncen, from {{der, en, fro, froncir}} "to wrinkle, frown", from {{der, en, frk, hrunkja, t=a wrinkle}}, from {{der, en, gem-pro, *hrunkijō}}, *hrunkitō, , fold, wrinkle, from {{der, enm, ine-pro, *(s)ker-, , to turn, bend}}. Akin to {{cog, goh, runza}} "fold, wrinkle, crease" ({{cog, de, Runzel}} "wrinkle"), {{cog, dum, ronse, }} "frown", {{cog, non, hrukka}} "wrinkle, crease" ({{cog, is, hrukka}} "wrinkle, crease, ruck"). More at ruck#etymology_2, ruck2.