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单词 looker-back
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looker-back
C1. With adverbs, forming compound agent nouns corresponding to adverbial combinations of look (see look v. Phrasal verbs 1), as looker-about, looker-after, looker-back, looker-up, etc. [In looker-upon in quot. c1475 after post-classical Latin episcopus bishop, and its etymon Hellenistic Greek ἐπίσκοπος, lit. ‘overseer’ (see bishop n.).]
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator
showerOE
beholderc1374
lookera1382
espiouressc1430
considererc1449
overseerc1450
regarder1525
surveyor1558
viewer1565
spectatora1586
regardant1590
aspector1603
supervisor1610
eyer1611
spectatrix1611
spectatress1632
speculator1647
contemplator1658
attender1665
espier1860
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. vii. 12 God forsothe the lokere aboute is [L. circumspector Deus].
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 2 If we wil, we mai calle bischoppis, locars up on.
1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes xxi. sig. Tttt.ijv Did she not stand by as a looker vppon, and not faint in hir minde?
1586 J. Prime Expos. St. Paul to Galathians ii. 49 (margin) Fugitiues and lookers-back from the plough they once laid their hands vnto.
1660 J. Trapp Comm. Holy Script. vii. 265 Christ loves no lookers back: See how hee thunders against them.
1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer 137 By the care of a Looker-after during their ripening season, the Fruit is safer than in a contiguous Orchard... This is annually done about the Kentish Cherry-Orchards and Plantations.
1754 World 21 Nov. 247 That it should be the only view towards which these Lookers-Forward never turn their eyes, is an inconsistency altogether unaccountable.
1771 J. Entick New Lat. & Eng. Dict. Despector, a looker down.
1867 Times 21 Oct. 4/5 Besides small lots of Witneys, elysians, and other overcoatings, there have been some lookers-up of fancy tweeds for ladies' wear.
1867 Amer. Jrnl. Hort. 2 368 Readers and thinkers, observers and lookers-about.
1889 Harper's Mag. July 237/2 You can appear with perfect freedom in your original character of a looker-up of family connections.
1926 W. J. Locke Old Bridge ii. viii. 134 The result..if sought, is there for the looker-round to behold.
1984 P. Fitzgerald Charlotte Mew xx. 189 Florence..probably understood these feelings best, being a natural looker-after and guardian.
2013 Times (Nexis) 7 Mar. (T2 section) 4 I'm not a looker-back at my own life.
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