| 单词 | in an eyewink |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin an eyewink 3. The brief space of time which it takes to blink or wink: an instant, a moment. Chiefly in in an eyewink. Cf. wink n.1 3a, eye-blink n. at eye n.1 Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant hand-whileOE prinkOE start-while?c1225 twinkling1303 rese?c1335 prick1340 momenta1382 pointa1382 minutea1393 instant1398 braida1400 siquarea1400 twink14.. whip?c1450 movement1490 punct1513 pissing whilea1556 trice1579 turning of a hand1579 wink1585 twinklec1592 semiquaver1602 punto1616 punctilio of time1620 punctum1620 breathing1625 instance1631 tantillation1651 rapc1700 crack1725 turning of a straw1755 pig's whisper1780 jiffy1785 less than no time1788 jiff1797 blinka1813 gliffy1820 handclap1822 glimpsea1824 eyewink1836 thought1836 eye-blink1838 semibreve1845 pop1847 two shakes of a lamb's taila1855 pig's whistle1859 time point1867 New York minute1870 tick1879 mo?1896 second1897 styme1897 split-second1912 split minute1931 no-time1942 sec.1956 1836 I. Steward Mascarenhas I. v. 122 Those subtle knaves change bodies in an eye-wink. 1879 C. Rossetti Seek & Find 88 Until all time dwindle to a mere eye-wink. 1890 Daily News 27 Jan. 3/1 You touch a tiny switch..and in an eye-wink your glass button-hole becomes an incandescent lamp. 1924 I. Irwin in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1924 (1925) 9 An old man, a wiseacre, a sage—Prospero. An old man who had exorcised that island in a breath, could banish it in an eye-wink! 2010 J. Kirk Kingdom under Glass 143 And then, in an eyewink, before anyone could get off a shot, the bull heaved itself over the canyon ledge. < as lemmas |
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