bibrow
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English
Etymology
From bi- + brow, modeled after unibrow or monobrow.
Noun
bibrow (plural bibrows)
- (rare, informal) A pair of eyebrows which do not meet in the middle, as opposed to a unibrow.
- 2003 January 26, Peter Ellis, “Re: [I] Is Long, Was Bowling for Columbine”, in alt.fan.pratchett[1] (Usenet):
- And, for the avoidance of doubt among the slower portion of the readership, I don't *actually* believe the monobrow to be a criminal indicator. That, of course, is the sole province of the tribrows like myself, monstrous offspring of a monobrow and bibrow parent.
- 2005 August 10, Matt Silberstein, “Re: What Darwinism is good for.”, in talk.origins[2] (Usenet):
- [> He would be more likely to have children with unibrows or good thick eyebrows, until one day there would be a whole unibrow race.]
What do you think would happen if bibrow people tended to die before they had children and unibrow people tended to survive?
- 2010, Molly Patton, Just South of Normal, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 239:
- Now he was taller, more muscular, and he'd let his hair grow out quite a bit – it was brown and curly, like Davin's, only Hunter's was longer. And the unibrow had graduated to a bibrow, with an ample amount of hairless skin in between.