curl (one's) lip

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To sneer at something. When I heard what was for dinner, I curled my lip in disgust. Don't you curl your lip at me! I did nothing wrong here!

Name	Pronounced	Usage
ElÍSabet	-	Icelandic
Hizkiah	-	Biblical
Mladen	MLAH-den (Croatian, Serbian)	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Jaime (1)	HIE-me (Spanish), ZHIEM (Portuguese)	Spanish, Portuguese
Zola (2)	-	Southern African, Zulu
Canute	kə-NOOT (English), kə-NYOOT (English)	History