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Duck face

Type of facial expression

Duck face

Type of facial expression

Demonstration of a duck face pose

Duck face or duck lips is a photographic pose that is common on profile pictures in social networks. The lips are pressed together as in a pout and the cheeks are typically also sucked in. The pose is usually seen as an attempt to appear alluring, but it can be ironic or an attempt to hide self-conscious embarrassment.

History

Fashion models frequently use exaggerated pouts, In the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, one of the lead characters, Henrietta, played by Anna Chancellor, is nicknamed Duckface for her pouty expressions. As social networks became popular, young women frequently made exaggeratedly pouty expressions. This became a major fad by the 2010s, provoking a strong negative reaction among some viewers.

OxfordDictionaries.com added "duck face" as a new word in 2014 to their list of current and modern words, but it has not been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

In an animal communication studies of capuchin monkeys, the "duck face" term has been used synonymously with "protruded lip face", which females exhibit in the proceptive phase before mating.

References

References

  1. (25 May 2011). "Duck Hunting on the Internet". [[The New York Times]].
  2. Pappano, Laura. (31 July 2015). "The Scholarship in Selfies". [[The New York Times]].
  3. Murphy, Kate. (8 August 2015). "What Selfie Sticks Really Tell Us About Ourselves". [[The New York Times]].
  4. Mervosh, Sarah. (11 July 2019). "It's Easy to Hate Selfies. But Can They Also Be a Force for Good?". [[The New York Times]].
  5. Fisher-Quann, Rayne. (4 May 2022). "The cult of the dissociative pout". [[Vice.com]].
  6. Steinmetz, Katy. (3 December 2014). "Oxford Dictionaries Adds 'Duck Face,' 'Man Crush' and 'Lolcat'". [[Time (magazine).
  7. (4 December 2014). "Lolcat and duck face new words in Oxford Dictionaries online". [[Newsround]].
  8. (21 June 2004). "The Complete Capuchin: The Biology of the Genus Cebus". Cambridge University Press.
  9. (October 1997). "Nonconceptive sexual behavior in bonobos and capuchins". International Journal of Primatology.
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