单词 | eye-server |
释义 | eye-servern. Now rare. = eye-servant n. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.a1626 |
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