单词 | side-glancing |
释义 | side-glancingadj. Of a look or glance: directed sideways. Of a person, the eye: that glances sideways. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > looking sideways leering1546 gloating1602 by-peepinga1616 side-glancinga1794 side-looking1829 a1794 S. Blamire Poet. Wks. (1842) 249 His sad head he shook, And cast on sweet Kitty a side-glancing look. 1898 M. M. Dowie Crook of Bough viii. 64 Trios of archly side-glancing ladies with big heads and oxey eyes sauntered opposite the more crowded seats. 1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 35 A big..man, whose little side-glancing eyes seemed always alert for scandal. 2009 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Mar. 30 The Cobbe portrait..bears a likeness to other reputed Shakespeare portraits—that lengthy nose, those side-glancing eyes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1794 |
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