What does gimlety mean?
Gimlety means Resembling a gimlet or gimlets..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
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.
though thy cap be queer, / And thy curls gimlety, and thy cheeks thin,
He had not the virile and spiritual tenacity of his uncle Charles II or of his grandfather Charles I, but he had a sort of gimlety tenacity which was not to be despised. He bored into a thing and held it.
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.
Out of the black window Steerpike saw, as a result of his cough, the small gimlety eyes peer coldly from a crimson wedge.
He gives me a gimlety appraising glance through his silver rims […]
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Gimlety means Resembling a gimlet or gimlets..
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[…] 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.
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