单词 | eye-serving |
释义 | eye-servingadj. Now rare. That is hard-working or obedient only when under observation; characterized by such behaviour. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [adjective] > dutiful only under supervision eye-serving1615 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 18 This eye-seruing-age is quickly gone To all deceit, if we lacke lookers on. 1622 W. Gouge Of Domesticall Duties vii. 617 The world is full of such eye-seruing seruants, who while their masters are present, will be as busie as Bees: but if he be away, then either idling at home, or gadding abroad. 1819 Anti-Jacobin Rev. Mar. 14 Princes lose their arbitrary misrule..and servants their eye-serving obsequiousness. 1863 E. Yates Let. to Women Eng. on Slavery 35 Toussainte was an impudent, double-faced eye-serving minx. 1918 R. S. Carroll Mastery of Nervousness (ed. 3) xviii. 254 The neighbour who is risking her children's future soul-welfare in the hands of an eye-serving nursery maid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1615 |
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