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单词 eye-server
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eye-servern.

Brit. /ˈʌɪˌsəːvə/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌsərvər/
Forms: see eye n.1 and server n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.1, server n.
Etymology: < eye n.1 + server n. Compare earlier eye-servant n., eye-service n.
Now rare.
= eye-servant n.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > dutiful or attentive > only under eye of master
eye-servanta1555
eye-servera1626
eye-waiter1742
a1626 L. Andrewes Institutiones Piæ (1630) 123 Giue them the like Grace..to performe their duties, in feare and obedience, not as eye-seruers.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful II. i. 7 I will have no eye-servers under me.
1870 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Talk i. 16 The man who loiters when the master is away is an eye-server.
1921 Jrnl. County Louth Archaeol. Soc. 5 40 Schomberg had proved himself no eye-server.
1980 Furrow 31 707 The system tended to produce..what we called an ‘eye-server’, one who obeys rules only when the authorities are around.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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