单词 | winked |
释义 | winkedadj. winked-at, winked-on, connived at, tolerated. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > permitted or allowed > permitted by non-intervention winked-at1632 tolerated1692 winked-on1810 1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse v. viii [He] has been a loose Liver,..at..most of the winkt at houses about the Town. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough iv. 57 Plays, Put out by Heathens in the wink'd-on days. 1971 J. Brunner Honky in Woodpile iii. 24 Some winked-at gambling and smuggling. 1979 Dædalus Summer 107 Such genre paintings represent not a random clutter of whimsically winked-at transgressions but an array of symbols encoding quite specific moral instructions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1632 |
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