单词 | eye-rolling |
释义 | eye-rollingn. The action or an act of rolling the eyes, typically as an expression of disapproval, disbelief, or exasperation, or (formerly esp.) of mania or frenzy. Also figurative. Cf. roll v.2 21a, 21b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > movements of eye rollinga1500 volubility1603 flexion1626 roving1658 eye-rolling1837 run1837 sursumversion1897 extorsion1899 vergence1902 eye-roll1928 1837 Bentley's Misc. Jan. 134 Exeunt Scowl and Fitz-Growl with melodramatic eye-rollings. 1859 Wrexham & Denbighshire Advertiser 15 Jan. Now, what brain-racking, reaping up, jotting down, and phrenzied eye-rolling all this pre-supposes. 1918 H. L. Mencken In Def. Women (1922) ii. 29 His oafish smirks and eye-rollings signify that he has achieved the intellectual disaster that is called falling in love. 1978 E. Chargaff Heraclitean Fire iii. 175 The prevailing winds all blow from the side of hypocrisy, shabby make-believe, insincere eye-rolling. 2008 New Yorker 23 June 23/2 There's been plenty of (metaphorical) eye-rolling, and head-shaking, over the pronouncements of ‘body-language experts’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). eye-rollingadj. Characterized by rolling of the eyes, esp. in mania or frenzy or (now) disapproval, disbelief, or exasperation. Also: causing someone to roll the eyes in disapproval, disbelief, etc. ΚΠ ?a1656 J. Poole Eng. Parnassus (1657) 116 Jealousie..[is] eye-rolling, ghastly, frowning, prying, outragious. 1672 H. More Brief Reply ix. 266 Those smiling, lowring and eye-rowling Images [in art]..loose the effect they are intended for. 1784 M. Dawes Stuckey’s Vanity Human Knowl. 32 Eye rolling cherubs take a copious fill. 1862 London Soc. July 83/1 Turfing men shout to anybody in a maniacal and eye-rolling way—‘3 to 1 on Marquis.’ 1892 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 1 July 9/5 That poetical nature, who in an eye-rolling frenzied calenture, declared..that architecture was frozen music. 1942 Billboard 15 Aug. 13/2 She..gives it that eye-rolling, saucy, vivacious delivery. 1978 B. Asbell Senate Nobody Knows 135 It's the talk of the Senate, usually accompanied by eye-rolling wonderment, that Senator Domenici has fathered a wagonload of eight. 1998 D. Curran Guide to Amer. Cinema 151 In Henry we meet evil. He's no eye-rolling maniac, just an unfeeling purveyor of death. 2010 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Feb. 53 I pride myself on my unerring ability to eschew eye-rolling sarcasm in favour of infectiously perky enthusiasm. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1837adj.?a1656 |
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