look-ingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 lokynge, from earlier lokinde, lokende, from 古期英語 lōciende, present participle of 古期英語 lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look +‎ -ing.

動詞

looking

1. present participle and gerund of look
2. as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.

   dorky-looking

   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:

     By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

   • 1988 September 12, New York Magazine, page 226:

     Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.

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語源 2

From 中期英語 lokynge, lokinge, from 古期英語 lōcung (attested in 古期英語 þurhlōcung), equivalent to look +‎ -ing.

名詞

looking (plural lookings)

1. The act of one who looks; a glance.
   • 2005, Felix Driver, Luciana Martins, Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, page 162:

     A complicated interplay of lookings and viewings is in play. The staging and performance of the photograph, then, is as much the subject of the photograph as the ostensible subjects […]

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