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单词 onlooker
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onlookern.

Brit. /ˈɒnˌlʊkə/, U.S. /ˈɔnˌlʊkər/, /ˈɑnˌlʊkər/
Forms: see on prep. and looker n.; also Scottish pre-1700 unlooker.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: on- prefix, looker n.
Etymology: < on- prefix + looker n., after to look on at look v. 1a(a). Compare onlook n., onlooking n., onlooking adj., to look on at look v. 1a(a), and looker-on n. at looker n. Compounds 2.Compare Old English onlōciend, in the same sense ( < on- prefix + look v. + -end suffix1).
A person who looks on; an observer, a spectator.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > bystander or onlooker
circumstanta1513
bystander1534
stander-by1534
looker-on?1536
onlooker1550
titlark1800
tricoteuse1828
railbird1894
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xcii. sig. Cvi And as thei iudge of chese, so iudge thei of bokes. On lokers on whiche, who that narowly lokes, Maie loke for this.
1606 W. Drummond Let. 1 June in Wks. (1711) 232 Who..will not be an idle On-looker to such Pastimes.
1615 S. Daniel Hymens Triumph in Wks. (1717) 94 We robb'd our Looks th' Onlookers to beguile.
1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 248 Continued both well as ever they were, to the Apprehension of all On-lookers, until the end of January.
a1712 T. Halyburton Five Serm. (1721) 14 You have many onlookers, sin Satan and the world who regrate your prosperity.
1823 J. Galt Entail III. x. 95 But, wasna baith his mother and father present, and is that no gospel evidence, that I was but an innocent onlooker?
1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling p. xiv So far as an on-looker and a child could learn.
1884 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 1/1 It is the onlooker that sees most of the game.
1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington xv. 283 Already she seemed to be standing aside as an onlooker where she had expected herself to be taking a leading part.
1937–42 D. Gascoyne Ecce Homo in Sel. Poems 78 He is suspended on the cross-tree now And we are onlookers at the crime.
1989 Japan Times 15 May 4/1 Hundreds of onlookers jeered and yelled insults at police.
2010 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer 13 Hours ii. 18 His mind focussed on the growing crowd of onlookers who would need to be controlled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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