| 单词 | the glad eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe glad eye d. the glad eye: a look or movement of the eyes designed to attract a person of the opposite sex; hence glad-eye v. transitive to give (someone) the glad eye. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > amorous looks or demeanour > flirtatious look(s) amorets1590 belgard1590 oeillade1592 sheep's eyes1604 belamour1610 oglea1668 whiting's eye1673 the glad eye1911 glad1927 1911 Punch 22 Nov. 382/2 The lover, the elderly philanderer, the girl with the glad eye. 1913 ‘I. Hay’ Happy-go-lucky ii Miss Welwyn..from the safe harbourage of her mother's arms, was endeavouring to administer to him what is technically known, I believe, as The Glad Eye. 1922 Daily Mail 13 Dec. 11 This is tantamount to cutting the owner of a bad horse on one side of the street and giving him the glad eye on the other. 1923 W. L. George Hail, Columbia! iv. 119 I have never seen an American girl give to a man in the street what the English call the ‘glad eye’. 1935 A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. xvi. 150 Purves..‘glad~eyeing’ Hetty, trying ‘to get off with her’. 1939 A. Huxley After Many a Summer ii. i. 189 I do see her giving the glad eye to Pete. < as lemmas |
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