单词 | recoilingly |
释义 | recoilinglyadv. In a recoiling manner; with a recoil. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum (at cited word) Reculynglye. Cessim [1572 Recoylynglye]. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Recoilingly, with starting back or retrocession. 1850 S. Judd Richard Edney xix. 229 ‘See it!’ she recoilingly answered. ‘How can you see it, when a body is frightened to death hearing it?’ 1915 Oelwein (Iowa) Daily Reg. 22 July 10/2 ‘Your husband keeps calling for you... Won't you come—just for a moment?’ ‘Oh. I can't,’ recoilingly: ‘I can't! Don't ask me.’ 2005 Village Voice (Nexis) 16 Aug. 70 Sex..leads the women on a journey of discovery that brings them back—recoilingly—to their mothers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1552 |
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