| 释义 |
quietlike, a. and adv. orig. Sc.
[See -like 2 b.]
Apparently quiet; quietly.
In some or all of the modern examples the formation may have been influenced by the parenthetic use of like (see like adv. 7).
c1470Henry Wallace v. 577 All his four men bar thaim quietlik. a1902Mod. Sc. Your horse is a quietlike beast. 1909J. Masefield Tragedy of Nan ii. 31 He was fiddlin' quiet-like, all the time 'e were a-singing. 1913W. de la Mare Peacock Pie 98 Calling me, ‘Sam!’—quietlike. 1976New Yorker 8 Mar. 102/2 Someone said, ‘It wasn't no mortar round,’ real quietlike. 1977I. Shaw Beggarman, Thief i. iv. 49 Wesley turned to him and said, quiet-like, ‘Shut your big trap about Americans, limey.’ |