| 单词 | shake of the head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshake of the head c. shake of the head: see shake v. 6b. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [noun] > head gestures nod1541 nodding1550 headshake1603 shake of the head1713 1713 J. Hughes in J. Duncombe Lett. Several Eminent Persons Deceased (1772) I. 74 I may have called a man a knave by a shake of the head and a shrug of the shoulders. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic iii. i Puff. Why, by that shake of the head, he [Ld. Burleigh] gave you to understand that [etc.]. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son l. 495 Captain Cuttle observed, with a shake of his head, that Jack Bunsby himself hadn't made it out. 1889 C. S. Parnell in R. B. O'Brien Life C. S. Parnell (1898) II. 228 Is there any one of them who..sitting in his place, by a shake of the head, or a nod, or a word, will venture to say that [etc.]? < as lemmas |
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