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To squint. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny at me? Shak., Lear, iv. 6. 140.

One meets few or none of those figures and faces, small, scrofulous, squinny, and haggard, which disgrace the so-called civilisation of a British city. — At Last
"A parcel of squinny-gut b--s," says he; "I have a good mind to overturn them; you won't prevail upon them to drink anything, I assure you." — Joseph Andrews Vol 1
One night she was woke up at midnight, and when she went downstairs, she saw a strange squinny-eyed, little ugly old fellow, who asked her to come to his wife who was too ill to mind her baby. — English Fairy Tales
As she was buying the things she wanted, who should she see but the squinny-eyed old fellow who had taken her on the coal-black horse. — English Fairy Tales
Yours at Haughton are all very well, but the very largest would be squinny beside these. " — Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes