| 单词 | to look squiggle-eyed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto look squiggle-eyed (at someone) squiggle-eyed adv. in to look squiggle-eyed (at someone), to view askance or unfavourably. Also as adj. (Only in P. G. Wodehouse.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove [verb (intransitive)] > look disapprovingly to look squiggle-eyed (at someone)1927 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [adjective] > expressing disapproval by looks frowningc1386 stern1390 squiggle-eyed1960 1927 P. G. Wodehouse Meet Mr. Mulliner vi. 178 There is a certain stage in the progress of a man's love when he feels like curling up in a ball and making little bleating noises if the object of his affections so much as looks squiggle-eyed at him. 1941 P. G. Wodehouse Berlin Broadcasts in Performing Flea (1961) i. 265 The internee is always being told to show his passport, and if he has not got one, the authorities tend to look squiggle-eyed. 1960 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing xii. 136 She's always been a bit squiggle-eyed about Phyllis, because in Switzerland she held the view that we were a shade too matey. 1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin i. 9 He was very fond of her—in a brotherly way, of course, to which even Gertrude Butterwick, always inclined to look squiggle-eyed at his female friends, could not have taken exception. < as lemmas |
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