pulling faces
Distorting your features
Pulling faces is making exaggerated or distorted facial expressions, typically to amuse, mock, or express displeasure.
Children pull faces to make each other laugh; someone might pull faces behind a teacher's back.
More common in British than American English, where *making faces* is the usual phrase: Stop pulling faces at your sister.
- smirkPleased, superior smile
- mockingScornfully imitating or ridiculing
- grimaceTwisted expression of displeasure
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- buffooneryLudicrous or silly conduct
silly expression · making fun · sticking tongue out · pout · gape · raised eyebrow · eye roll · glower · leer · jesting · impersonation · mimicry · frown · clowning · teasing · taunting · flirting · reacting
facial expression control
pulling faceskeeping a straight face
poker face · stone-faced · blank expression · expressionless · impassive
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