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单词 staring-stock
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staring-stock
staring-stock n. [compare gazing stock n.] Obsolete the object of stares; a person or thing likely to be stared at.
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1541 R. Whitford tr. St. Isidore Instr. Auoyde & eschewe Vices in Dyuers Holy Instrucyons & Teachynges f. 72v Lette eueryche, therfore behaue hym selfe accordynge vnto hys callynge: so that he make not of hym selfe a starynge stocke.
1837 Amer. Monthly Mag. Apr. 379 I had not the courage to walk out and make myself a staring stock.
1895 G. Griffith Valdar the Oft-born vi. 71 I had no fancy to be the staring-stock of the whole city by the next morning.
1926 Citizen (Gloucester) 25 May 2/4 I insist that I'm not made a staring-stock for the public.
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