英和和英

動詞

take a sight (三人称単数 現在形 takes a sight, 現在分詞 taking a sight, 過去形 took a sight, 過去分詞 taken a sight)

1. Synonym of cock a snook (“perform disrespectful gesture with thumb against the nose”)
   • 1854, The New Monthly Magazine (page 455)

     He put his thumb to his nose as he said this and (in familiar phrase) took a sight at me, winking one eye in the most confidential manner, and at the same time gently tapping his breeches pocket.

   • 1968, Jacky S, Suburban Souls: The Erotic Psychology of a Man and a Maid (page 263)

     Papa did the best thing he could do under the circumstances: he got up and left us, and as he rose, Lilian put her thumb to her nose, and “took a sight” at him, much to my inward disgust, […]