单词 | timeling |
释义 | timelingn. Now archaic and rare. A time-server. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming > temporizer or trimmer Jack of both sides1554 mongrela1555 timeling1554 temporizer1555 time-taker1576 politique1581 time-server1583 time-pleaser1590 time observer1594 temporist1596 please-time1606 timist1614 timorist?1623 trimmer1682 Vicar of Bray1725 timer1842 1554 T. Becon Humble Supplicacion sig. Civv Ministers, whiche are faynteharted, and..but tymelinges, seruing rather the time (as the manner of the worldlinges is). 1631 A. Wilson Swisser ii. i. 158 What sayes my Lip-Ladds? My little Time-lings? 1846 Yale Lit. Mag. Nov. 37 The slavish timelings who would fain believe with their royal conscience-keeper, were unable to follow the king through all his capricious windings. 1914 A. H. Plumb When Mayflowers Blossom x. 177 Those saint-seeming, well-officed timelings,..whose own livelihood fed upon formalism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1554 |
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