| 释义 |
winked, ppl. a.|wɪŋkt|
[f. wink v.1 + -ed1.]
winked-at, winked-on, connived at, tolerated.
1632Brome Northern Lasse v. viii, [He] has been a loose Liver,..at..most of the winkt at houses about the Town. 1810Crabbe Borough iv. 352 Plays, Put out by heathens in the wink'd-on days. 1971J. Brunner Honky in Woodpile iii. 24 Some winked-at gambling and smuggling. 1979Dædalus Summer 107 Such genre paintings represent not a random clutter of whimsically winked-at transgressions but an array of symbols encoding quite specific moral instructions. |