eye-stalkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

eye-stalk (third-person singular simple present eye-stalks, present participle eye-stalking, simple past and past participle eye-stalked)

1. (herding) (Of working dogs) To intensely stare to intimidate and control livestock.

   Coordinate term: stalk

   • 2002, Coppinger, Raymond =, Dogs : a new understanding of canine origin, behavior, and evolution‎, page 212:

     I'd play cribbage with the herders and Jane would push the sheep to the top of the mesa, picking up the strays as she eye-stalked-chased (worried) the stragglers.

2. (by extension) To look at someone in an evaluating or scrutinizing manner.

   Hypernyms: eye up, eyeball, ogle

   Coordinate terms: give someone the eye, eyerape, eye-rape, stare down

   • 1993, Flemming, Laraine E, chapter 8, in Reading for Results‎, page 390:

     The private eye stalked the surgeon for several months but always seemed to be one step behind.

   • 2006, Rhodes, Evie, Criss Cross‎, page 74:

     Micah shifted restlessly as he silently eye-stalked the people who had crowded into St. Patrick's Cathedral.

名詞

eyestalk (plural eyestalks)

1. (anatomy) A motile stalk having an eye at the tip.

同意語

• ommatophore

派生語