gimlety

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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. sıfat 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.”