Are her eyebrows literally singed in this context?

[Context] A woman finds Eagan peeking inside her car.
W: Get the hell away from my car!
E: Whoa! Whoa, easy there, Tammy Faye. I'm looking for Angelina.
E: Petite little thing, eyebrows maybe a little singed. Is she around?
W: Like I told the other officers, my daughter is dead!
E: Mm-hmm. Yeah, well, here's the thing.
E: There's about a handful of people who know that's a lie, and two of them are standing right here.

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us4gi

8 February

English (US)

I believe that he means it literally, yes.
Although he is also saying "maybe", so we can tell that even he doesn't know if they are or not (but thinks that it wouldn't be surprising if they were).

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nihonglish

8 February

Japanese

@us4gi Thank you(^-^)/ If so, what caused her eyebrows to get singed? This line is too random for me to understand, and so I thought it was some kind of idiom, like "you look very angry"

us4gi

8 February

English (US)

I just looked it up, and it's actually a stylistic thing people (especially women) do.
It just means her eyebrows are thin.
(Maybe she manually singed them with a curling iron or something, or maybe she just cut them to make them look singed.)

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nihonglish

8 February

Japanese

@us4gi So he's complimenting on how her eyebrows are fixed. Considering he's a quirky character, it makes sense. Thank you!!

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Are her eyebrows literally singed in this context?

[Context] A woman finds Eagan peeking inside her car.
W: Get the hell away from my car!
E: Whoa! Whoa, easy there, Tammy Faye. I'm looking for Angelina.
E: Petite little thing, eyebrows maybe a little singed. Is she around?
W: Like I told the other officers, my daughter is dead!
E: Mm-hmm. Yeah, well, here's the thing.
E: There's about a handful of people who know that's a lie, and two of them are standing right here.

I believe that he means it literally, yes.Although he is also saying "maybe", so we can tell that even he doesn't know if they are or not (but thinks that it wouldn't be surprising if they were).

I just looked it up, and it's actually a stylistic thing people (especially women) do.It just means her eyebrows are thin.(Maybe she manually singed them with a curling iron or something, or maybe she just cut them to make them look singed.)

I believe that he means it literally, yes.
Although he is also saying "maybe", so we can tell that even he doesn't know if they are or not (but thinks that it wouldn't be surprising if they were).

I just looked it up, and it's actually a stylistic thing people (especially women) do.
It just means her eyebrows are thin.
(Maybe she manually singed them with a curling iron or something, or maybe she just cut them to make them look singed.)