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Definition of Squint-eyed

1. Adjective. Affected by strabismus.

2. Adjective. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy. "Sidelong glances"

Definition of Squint-eyed

1. Adjective. Having eyes that squint; cross-eyed. ¹

2. Adjective. Looking obliquely, or asquint; malignant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Squint-eyed

squinied squinies squink squinks squinnied squinnier squinnies squinniest squinny squinnying

squinsies squinsy squint squint-a-pipes squint-eye squint-eyed (current term) squint hook squint like a bag of nails squinted squinter

squinters squintest squintier squintiest squintifego squinting squinting eye squintingly squints squinty

Literary usage of Squint-eyed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... speaks of ranters, whose object was The stage curtains be artificially drawn, and so covertly shrouded, that the squint-eyed groundling may not peep in. ..."

2. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1896)
"So squint-eyed = cross-eyed or cock-eyed.1 2) to look askance, for example, ... Century dictionary, squint, V 3) ; (6) squinting or squint-eyed = ambiguous ..."

3. A Supplement to the Two Volumes of the Second Edition of The Essay on the by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"have made to squint; squint-eyed, is to have the eye aside, and so looking secretly, slyly at; to eye, to watch carefully. " Perkin began already TO SQUINT ..."

4. Excursions Along the Shores of the Mediterranean. by Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier (1842)
"CHAPTER I. Excursion to the Cork Wood—Myrtle and aloes—Concert of grass-hoppers — The Almora'ima — Old Martha—The squint-eyed ..."

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