gimlety

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling a gimlet or gimlets.
    — […] in my opinion a man can’t raise good stock in no such way. They’ll be picayunish and nice and sharp featured and gimlety, but they won’t do to bet on like them children that’s been bro’t up ’round a fire-place on a hundred acre farm and had plenty of fresh air and latitude.
  2. Piercing, sharp-sighted.
    — 1915, John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps His jaw had shut like a rat-trap, and there was the fire of battle in his gimlety eyes.

词形变化

more gimlety comparative most gimlety superlative

词汇关系

相关词
gimlet-eyed

词源

Etymology tree
English gimlet
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gimlety
From gimlet + -y.
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