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Definition[1]

bhākuṭika : [adj.] knitting the brows; frowning.

Source
A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]
Definition[2]

Bhākuṭika (adj.) [fr. bhakuṭi] knitting the eyebrows, frowning, only in redupl. cpd. bhākuṭika -- bhākuṭiko frowning continually, supercilious Vinii.11=iii.181 (manda -- mando+); Nd2 342 (korajika -- korajiko+); Vism 26 (id.). -- f. bhākuṭikā a frown, frowning, superciliousness, def. at Vism 26 as "padhāna -- parimathitabhāva -- dassanena bhākuṭi [read bhakuṭi] -- karaṇaŋ mukha -- sankoco ti vuttaŋ hoti." It occurs in stock phrase bhākuṭikā bhākuṭiyaŋ kuhanā kuhāyanā in def. of kuhanā at Vbh 352=Vism 23, 25 (cp. Nd1 225), and at Nd2 342 D. See also VbhA 482 (bhākuṭikaraṇaŋ sīlam assā ti bhākuṭiko). The form bhākuṭiyaŋ (nt.) is originally the same as bhākuṭikā, only differentiated in C. -- style. The def. at Vism 26 is "bhākuṭikassa bhāvo bhākuṭiyaŋ." The v. l. ibid. is bhākuṭitā. -- bhākuṭikaŋ karoti to make a frowning face, to act superciliously Vism 105 (as a quality of one "dosa -- carita").

Source
Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,
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