adjective
frowning
knitting the brows; frowning
Bhākuṭika (adjective) [from bhakuṭi] knitting the eyebrows, frowning, only in reduplicated compound bhākuṭika-bhākuṭiko frowning continually, supercilious Vin II 11 = III 181 (manda-mando + bh.); Nidd II §342 (korajika-korajiko + bh.); Vism 26 (the same). — feminine bhākuṭikā a frown, frowning, superciliousness, definition at Vism 26 as "padhāna-parimathitabhāva-dassanena bhākuṭi [read bhakuṭi] -karaṇaṃ mukha-saṅkoco ti vuttaṃ hoti." It occurs in stock phrase bhākuṭikā bhākuṭiyaṃ kuhanā kuhāyanā in definition of kuhanā at Vibh 352 = Vism 23, 25 (cf. Nidd I 225), and at Nidd II §342 D. See also Vibh-a 482 (bhākuṭikaraṇaṃ sīlam assā ti bhākuṭiko). The form bhākuṭiyaṃ (neuter) is originally the same as bhākuṭikā, only differentiated in commentary-style. The definition at Vism 26 is "bhākuṭikassa bhāvo bhākuṭiyaṃ." The v.l. ibid. is bhākuṭitā. -bhākuṭikaṃ karoti to make a frowning face, to act superciliously Vism 105 (as a quality of one "dosa-carita").
【形】 眉頭一皺的,皺眉頭的。
(adj, adj, comp) knitting the brows, frowning