Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Service performed only under inspection of the eye of an employer or master.
- n. Homage paid with the eyes.
Wiktionary
- n. Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer.
Etymologies
- eye + service (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
“At the hotels its adoption is compulsory, if the traveller would shun eyeservice and the most provoking inattention or neglect.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
“49: 006: 006 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of”
“51: 003: 022 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eyeservice’.
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phrontistery - e
from phrontistery.info
ecclesiarchy, ecclesiastry, ecdemomania, echinuliform, echoism, echolalia, echopraxia, eclaircise, ?claircissement, eclat, ?clat, eclegme and 616 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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heather's Words
kleptocracy, aberrant, tawdry, insipid, noggin, obfuscate, dream, esoteric, hijinks, mischevious, nefarious, rapscallion and 184 more...
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Notepad
Things I want to remember for later.
recherche, tatterdemalion, lorgnette, hardihood, frippery, mountebank, gewgaw, slumbrous, spatterdashes, callithump, obfuscatory, supererogatory and 58 more...
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Irresponsibilities
Ways to esquivaliate.
gongoozler, mollycoddle, eyeservice, luftmensch, peregrination, malinger, groak, lèche-vitrines, faineant, slugabed, layabout, ne'er-do-well and 18 more...
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