| 单词 | to cast sheep's-eyes at |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cast (occasionally to make) sheep's-eyes at a. to cast (also throw) a sheep's-eye at (or upon), now usually to cast (occasionally to make) sheep's-eyes at: to look lovingly, amorously, or longingly at. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt with [verb (transitive)] > look amorously at to cast (also throw) a sheep's-eye at (or upon)a1529 to look sideways1652 ogle1686 sheep's-eye1801 to cast (occasionally to make) sheep's-eyes at1809 to eye up1820 a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 121 When ye kyst a shepys ie,..[At] mastres Andelby. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. ii. sig. P3 Mopsa, throwing a great number of sheeps eyes vpon me. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre v. iv. 78 in Wks. II Hero..seeing Leanders naked legge, and goodly calfe, Cast at him, from the boat, a Sheepes eye, and a halfe. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 247 Don Manuel cast many a Sheep's Eye at my Wife, and his good Lady at me. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 30 I have often seen him cast a Sheep's Eye out of a Calf's Head at you. 1802 G. Colman Broad Grins 58 He, the beast! was casting sheeps-eyes at her, Out of his bullock head. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. iv. 38 I could not help casting a sheep's eye at the gold and silver plate peeping out of the different cupboards. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxvii. 236 The horrud old Colonel,..was making sheep's eyes at a half-caste girl there. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xix. 262 Local leaders cast sheep's eyes at the seat. < as lemmas |
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