make faces

A form of make a face — To make a facial expression, often for humor, as a taunt, or to indicate distaste.

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Meanings

verbmake faces (third-person singular simple present makes faces, present participle making faces, simple past and past participle made faces)

present singular third person makes faces · participle present making faces · participle past made faces · past made faces

  1. alternativeidiomaticintransitiveAlternative form of make a face.

    Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.

    1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC
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