Timeline for The meaning of the verb "to rake [one's gaze]"
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| Oct 11, 2023 at 11:23 | comment | added | TimR on some device | The title's Twisted Bonds suggests perhaps some subconscious sado-masochistic tendencies? | |
| Oct 11, 2023 at 11:09 | comment | added | Iszhar | Of course, it is the book "Our twisted bonds" by Lexi Ryan. The other longer quote says: "Who says I don't need a bath too." Finn's gaze rakes over me and leaves happy little shivers in its path. | |
| Oct 11, 2023 at 9:37 | comment | added | TimR on some device | I don't know the book, or anything about the speaker of those words, but they suggest the speaker found the gaze to be worse than unpleasant. Could you cite the source, if it is a book? | |
| Oct 11, 2023 at 8:54 | comment | added | Iszhar | I wonder why author used such a figurative word instead of "run his gaze over me/her". That implies for me that the gaze would be sharp and unpleasant, but when I was reading this sentence in the book, I didn't get that feeling out of it. It felt simply like the action was just performed. | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 21:32 | comment | added | TimR on some device | It is a metaphorical use of rake. An actual rake has pointy "fingers", and so to scratch someone's face with fingernails is not that different from using the garden tool. However, when looking a person's body over from head to toe ("ogling" them) is the action involved, there isn't such a clear and direct analogy. The gaze is the tool with sharp fingers. | |
| Oct 9, 2023 at 15:15 | comment | added | Iszhar | Do you know if it is the correct use of "rake"? | |
| Oct 5, 2023 at 12:59 | comment | added | TimR on some device | "over" there means "from head to toe, across the length of my body". | |
| Oct 5, 2023 at 12:56 | comment | added | TimR on some device | rake is often used with fingernails scratching the face, and so this figurative use might be intentionally summoning up those connotations. See: google.com/… | |
| S Oct 4, 2023 at 16:55 | history | suggested | CDR | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2023 at 12:50 | answer | added | Paul Tanenbaum | timeline score: 1 | |
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| S Oct 4, 2023 at 12:22 | history | asked | Iszhar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |