单词 | eyeful |
释义 | eyeful (once / 124414 pages) n When you get an eyeful, you get a good, long look at something or someone. Climbing to the summit of a mountain can give you an eyeful of the beautiful valley below. A complete view of anything can be described colloquially as an eyeful, but for some reason people usually mean "a good look at a naked person" when they say it. Your mom might say, "A streaker ran nude through the football game, and boy did we get an eyeful!" Occasionally, the word means "a good-looking person," as when someone says, "Your cousin's really an eyeful!" This casual word has been used since the late 18th century. WORD FAMILYeyeful: eyefuls+/eye: eyed, eyeful, eyeing, eyeless, eyelet, eyelike, eyes, eying/eyed: eyedest, eyedness/eyeless: eyelessly, eyelessness/eyelet: eyelets/eyes: eyeses, eyess USAGE EXAMPLESThere were no curtains either, which meant the Talib guards who roamed the courtyard had an eyeful of the interior of the cells. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) Despite his own preferences for an eyeful of cityscape and sky, he looked for a vacancy on the lowest floor available. New York Times(Aug 19, 2016) Granted, I have the privilege/curse of working in the media, which means that I get heaping eyefuls of current events in my workday. Salon(Jul 22, 2016) 1n a full view; a good look they wanted to see violence and they got an eyeful Hyper sight, survey, view the act of looking or seeing or observing 2n a strikingly beautiful woman she was a statuesque redheaded eyeful Hyper adult female, woman an adult female person (as opposed to a man) |
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