Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
squinny .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To squint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
squint .
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Examples
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But it won't do; this old critical posture-master (whom, if Aurelian hanged, surely he knew what he was about) may as well put up his rapture pipes, and (as Lear says) 'not squiny' at us; for let us ask Master Longinus, in what earthly respect do these great strides of Neptune exceed Jack with his seven-league boots?
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Sophia, who said one day, whilst looking in the glass, admiring herself and sneering at the Noman who was fastening her frock, "What a fright you are with your squiny eyes and red hair!
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 Various
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