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单词 quietlike
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quietlikeadj.adv.

Brit. /ˈkwʌɪətlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪətˌlaɪk/, Scottish English /ˈkwʌiətlʌik/
Forms: see quiet adj. and adv. and -like suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: quiet adj., -like suffix.
Etymology: < quiet adj. + -like suffix. With use as adverb compare earlier quietly adv., quiet adv.In some or all of the examples below the formation may have been influenced by the parenthetic use of like adv. (see sense 6a at that entry).
Originally Scottish (also English regional and U.S. in later use).
A. adj.
Apparently quiet or peaceful.
ΚΠ
1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth I. ix. 207 ‘How is she ill?’ said he, much alarmed. ‘Quite quiet-like, sir; but I think she is dying.’
1892 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 3 Oct. These seats on the porch..with the vines hangin over this way makes it 'most as shut in and quietlike as a bedroom.
1902 N.E.D. (at cited word) Your horse is a quietlike beast.
1999 AMC: Go, tell it to Martin in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Nov. Although he tries to act all sweet and quietlike, it turns out she's not too pleased with his recent attempts at stalking her.
B. adv.
Quietly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [adverb] > silently
stillyc1000
stilla1225
softlyc1330
whistlya1400
silentlya1425
coylyc1475
quietly1488
still1535
huishtly1548
whishtly1548
mutely1587
silentially1627
statuelike1640
tacitly1643
noiselessly1794
soundlessly1837
soundless1844
mouse-like1874
quietlike1909
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge iii, in Graphic 9 Jan. 42/1 I can mind every serious fight o' married parties, every murder, every manslaughter, even every pocket-picking—leastwise large ones—that 't has been my lot to witness. But a selling? Was it done quiet-like?
1909 J. Masefield Trag. Nan ii, in Trag. Nan & Other Plays 31 He was fiddlin' quiet-like, all the time 'e were a-singing.
1945 L. Saxon et al. Gumbo Ya-Ya iii. 65 The old woman looked at her for a minute, then she said, quiet-like, ‘Well, I'm a son of a bitch!’
1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 29 Use yer loaf, man, Jap's nut that bloody stupid! Usually, 'e let's the scout ga through, or waits till 'e's reet inside the position an' then lays 'im oot, quiet-like.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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