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Definition of Squinched
1. Adjective. Having eyes half closed in order to see better. "Squinched eyes"
Definition of Squinched
1. Verb. (past of squinch) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Squinched
1. squinch [v] - See also: squinch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squinched
Literary usage of Squinched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishing Holidays by Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1904)
"be squinched that way without you dipped it in the water; you would need to hit
... So when the torch was squinched that way in the field, wasn't it a proof ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Sophy she say she seen the bill the waiter laid by his plate,—ye know how keen
them leetle, squinched-up eyes of hern be, — an' she say it war over ten ..."
3. Works of J. Fenimore Cooper by James Fenimore Cooper (1893)
"... to burn this block over my head will find the fire squinched in his own blood."
" This is idle and romantic talk, Pathfinder, and ye'll no maintain it ..."
4. Aunt Phillis's Cabin: Or, Southern Life as it is by Mary Henderson Eastman (1852)
"He must a got his thirst squinched by dat time. So Aunt Peggy, she waded cross
de river, when de elephant had went, and two days arter dat, ..."
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