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单词 eye-serving
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eye-servingadj.

Brit. /ˈʌɪˌsəːvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌsərvɪŋ/
Forms: see eye n.1 and serving adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.1, serving n.
Etymology: < eye n.1 + serving n. Compare earlier eye-service n., eye-servant n.
Now rare.
That is hard-working or obedient only when under observation; characterized by such behaviour.
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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).
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