squint

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  1. intransitive verb To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight.
  2. intransitive verb To look or glance sideways.
  3. intransitive verb To look askance, as in disapproval.
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  • The little girl with the squint, as they used to call her. —  Maigret Goes Home - Georges Simenon - 13
  • Their skins were brown, leatherlike; their eyes had a habitual squint--marks of lives spent in a land of blistering heat and white-hot sunlight An observer would have wondered why they carried the shrouded golf bags, and would have been alarmed at their grim manner. —  006 - The Red Skull
  • Among these last came Cnaeus Pompey, afterward Pompey the Great, son of Pompey, surnamed Strabo, or the squint- eyed, either from some personal deformity or because he had trimmed between the two factions and was distrusted and hated by them both. —  Caesar: A Sketch
  • I want to go against the grain here but no matter how much I squint, the Angels still come out on top. —  Baseball Analysts
  • The pressman gave me a squint, then shrugged and walked off. —  The Times Today's News
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Short for asquint.

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  1. Not found in Middle English, except as in asquint, askew; apparently an extension of the obsolete or dial. squin, squean, sken, prob. connected with D. schuinen, slant, slope, schuin, slant, sloping; perhaps associated with English dial. squink, wink, partly a variant of wink, partly from Swedish svinka, shrink, flinch, nasalized form of svika, balk, flinch, fail; cf. Danish srigte, bend, fail, forsake; Anglo-Saxon swīcan, escape, avoid. The history of the word is meager, and the forms apparently related are more or less involved.
  2. from squint, n.
 

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