gimlety

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling a gimlet or gimlets.

   • 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.
2. 2

   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.
   • 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 […]

The neighborhood

• neighborgimlet-eyed