单词 | eye-roller |
释义 | eye-rollern. A person who (habitually) rolls his or her eyes, (now) esp. in disapproval, disbelief, or exasperation. In later use also: something that causes disapproval, disbelief, etc. ΚΠ 1796 Sylph 1 178 As the rattle-snake is said to enchant the poor animal, on which it fixes its piercing eyes, in such a manner that it has no power to escape, so do the eye-rollers charm the men. 1877 Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 234/1 He was dwelling with fond minuteness on the delicate touch of the cultured player in a scene which the eye-roller had carried by sheer exertion. 1986 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 2 Jan. c6 You hear a lot of cliches in this business, and this was truly one of those eye-rollers. 1989 A. Bernays Professor Romeo (1997) v. 68 Goldstein was an eye-roller, one of those infuriating kids who responds to what they don't like by an elaborate turn of the eyes toward the ceiling. 2010 New Yorker 24 May 68/1 This was one of the notions that Christopher Hitchens put forward in an eye-roller of a piece titled ‘Why Women Aren't Funny’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1796 |
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