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In a joking way. This is the adverb of waggish, so it describes HOW someone says or does something: with light, teasing humour, usually with a straight face. You most often meet it attached to a verb of speaking or looking — 'he remarked waggishly', 'she waggishly suggested that…', 'he winked waggishly'. Writers use it to tell the reader 'do not take that line seriously; the speaker was being funny'. Like waggish itself, it belongs to books rather than to talk. It is old-fashioned and a bit literary, and it also carries a faint smile from the writer — some writers use it half-mockingly, as if gently laughing at how pleased the joker is with himself. In everyday English you would just say 'jokingly', 'as a joke', or 'teasingly'.
詼諧地、開玩笑地(帶點頑皮)。書面語、偏舊式;口語直接說 jokingly 或「開玩笑地說」。
組成waggish (playfully joking) + -ly (the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb: 'in that way'). Inside waggish is wag, an old word for a joker.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
waggishlyadv
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In a waggish manner.
- ‘Doctor,’ says I, looking waggishly at him, ‘do you know ever a rhyme for Aristotle?’ ‘Port, if you plaise,’ says Mr. Goldsmith, laughing. And we had six rhymes for Aristotle before we left the coffee-house that evening.
- "Who was ahead?" Leper smiled waggishly. "I couldn't see that...."
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。