{"id":23495,"date":"2024-05-31T12:46:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23495"},"modified":"2024-05-31T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:46:43","slug":"super-brows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23495","title":{"rendered":"Super Brows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone who is <strong>supercilious<\/strong> is arrogantly superior, haughty or shows contemptuous indifference.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/grahamsblog\/448623436\/in\/photolist-RV4AoS-2jnHN6T-caJF59-33DWkQ-8CgeyZ-Eup8xJ-71X2Dd-4SCRKJ-2eNatGd-nkuPaS-7hJisb-25bytrq-megptF-V8u355-92SNhn-oZP137-2pBt1Ac-7AGzRZ-76LeuE-MX5qho-69dLM7-6qhU7f-4GAvr3-FDj7Q-6BMSn9-2Dc4ia-2dw1q84-bFaFkZ-Vc6nZX-vtNxku-2ghNjgz-2ghMZHd-97Un8i-2krCV9E-9W7KR2-QZvGiJ-cxFBzQ-9Wb9Lm-F8oZfF-7ajsdj-57a4of-Q2DJ5v-Yik2Jp-8RZQeG-4pmMT1-8MhBp8-3KwSte\" title=\"Finaly Raised Eyebrow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/162\/448623436_086b08f732_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Finaly Raised Eyebrow.jpg\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Supercilious<\/strong> comes from the Latin <em>supercili\u014dsus<\/em> (haughty, supercilious) from <em>supercilium<\/em> (eyebrow, will, pride, haughtiness, arrogance, sterness, superciliousness) from <em>super-<\/em> (above, over) and\u200e <em>cilium<\/em> ( eyelid), from Proto-Italic <em>*keljom<\/em>, from PIE <em>*\u1e31el-yo-m<\/em>, from <em>*\u1e31el-<\/em> (to cover) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/supercilious\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Equivalents of <strong>supercilious<\/strong> in other languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>hooghartig<\/strong> (&#8220;high-hearted&#8221;) = haughty, supercilious in Dutch<\/li>\n<li><strong>hochn\u00e4sig<\/strong> (&#8220;high-nosed&#8221;) = snooty, stuck-up, haughty, supercilious, arrogant in German<\/li>\n<li><strong>kione-ard<\/strong> (&#8220;high-head&#8221;) = arrogant, chieftain, haughty, presumptuous, supercilious in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>ffroenuchel<\/strong> (&#8220;high-nostril&#8221;) = haughty, disdainful, supercilious in Welsh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The word <strong>cilium<\/strong> also exists in English, and means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell, which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors.<\/li>\n<li>One of the fine hairs along an insect&#8217;s wing.<\/li>\n<li>Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ.<\/li>\n<li>An eyelash (plural <strong>cilia<\/strong>)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cilium#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related words in other languages include: <strong>cil<\/strong> (eyelash), and <strong>sourcil<\/strong> (eyebrow) in French, <strong>ceja<\/strong> (eyebrow, rim, edge) in Spanish, and <strong>ciglio<\/strong> (eyelash, eyebrow, border, edge, side) in Italian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cilium#Latin\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Other <strong>(eye)brow<\/strong>-related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>highbrow<\/strong> = intellectually stimulating, highly cultured, sophisticated; a cultured or learned person or thing<\/li>\n<li><strong>middlebrow<\/strong> = neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between; a person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between<\/li>\n<li><strong>lowbrow<\/strong> = unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture; someone or something of low education or culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Highbrow<\/strong> first appeared in print in 1875, and originally referred to the &#8216;science&#8217; of <strong>phrenology<\/strong>, which suggested that a person of intelligence and sophistication would possess a higher brow-line than someone of lesser intelligence and sophistication [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/highbrow#English\">source<\/a>]. <strong>Lowbrow<\/strong> was also conntected to <strong>phrenology<\/strong> and first appeared in about 1902 [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/lowbrow#English\">source<\/a>]. <strong>Middlebrow<\/strong> first appeared in <em>Punch<\/em> magazine in 1925 and is based <strong>highbrow<\/strong> and <strong>lowbrow<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/middlebrow#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>If something is completely devoid of cultural or educational value, it could be said to be <strong>no-brow \/ nobrow<\/strong>, a word popularized by John Seabrook in his book <em>Nobrow: the culture of marketing, the marketing of culture<\/em> (2000) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/no-brow#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, raising or furrowing your eyebrows is used to show you are asking a question in British Sign Language (BSL). Do other sign languages do this?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IUUbnltlBU0?si=CDi3b-nUDp0X1-oX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you know of any other interesting <strong>brow<\/strong>-related expressions?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.kualo.com\/rewards\/uk-unlimited-728x90.gif\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" border=\"0\"\nalt=\"Unlimited Web Hosting - Kualo\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone who is supercilious is arrogantly superior, haughty or shows contemptuous indifference. Supercilious comes from the Latin supercili\u014dsus (haughty, supercilious) from supercilium (eyebrow, will, pride, haughtiness, arrogance, sterness, superciliousness) from super- (above, over) and\u200e cilium ( eyelid), from Proto-Italic *keljom, from PIE *\u1e31el-yo-m, from *\u1e31el- (to cover) [source]. Equivalents of supercilious in other languages include: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,116,128,10,15,23,45,46,64,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic","category-spanish","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23497,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23495\/revisions\/23497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}