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looking daggers

looking daggers is the present participle and gerund of look daggers.

Meaning of look daggers

Verb

look daggers (third-person singular simple present looks daggers, present participle looking daggers, simple past and past participle looked daggers)

  1. (intransitive) Often followed by at: to stare in a disapproving, severe, or threatening manner, especially without speaking.
    • Before him set the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and rat's bane.1835, [Washington Irving], “Abbotsford”, in Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (The Crayon Miscellany; no. 2), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, pages 40–41

Questions about looking daggers

What is looking daggers the present participle and gerund of?
Looking daggers is the present participle and gerund of look daggers.

Words near looking daggers in the dictionary

  1. looking at oneself in the mirror
  2. looking away
  3. looking back
  4. looking before one leaps
  5. looking beyond
  6. looking daggers
  7. looking down
  8. looking down on
  9. looking down one's nose
  10. looking down upon
  11. looking for

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