squinnyn.1
? Obsolete.
(See quot. a1855.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
1716 Coll. State Songs, Poems, &c. since Rebellion 19 Soon a Pack was chose..Of Quacks and Squinnys, Rakes and Ninnys, Green and Grizled Beaus.
a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 48 Squinny, a contemptible fellow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
squinnyn.2
/ˈskwɪni/, U.S. /ˈskwɪni/ English regional (Hampshire, chiefly in Portsmouth).
A moaner, a complainer.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > one who complains
grucchildc1230
grutchera1250
groinera1382
musera1382
plainerc1400
plaintiff?a1439
fretter?1504
complainant1525
complainer1526
repiner1551
grudger1552
moaner1628
grumbler1633
querulist1647
maunderer1653
growler1753
grumbletonian1773
smellfungus1807
crib-biter1809
expostulatora1834
squinny1849
groaner1876
grouser1885
squealer1889
gruntler1893
grump1900
grouch1901
screamer1902
Moaning Minnie1934
narker1937
binder1944
1849 A. Spiers Gen. French & Eng. Dict. 434/3 Pleurnicheur, whiner; squinny.
1998 Sunderland Fans—All Squinnys? in alt.sports.soccer.european.uk.league.division1-2-3 (Usenet newsgroup) 30 Apr. It would seem to me that Sunderland fans are the biggest bunch of squinnys around in football.
2016 Metro (Nexis) 31 May 45 He's always loved a bit of a moan every now and then but Andy Murray has really returned to his bad habit of being a bit of a squinny at Roland Garros.
2017 @pheonix_flying 16 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Oh stop being such a squinny ya din.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
squinnyn.3
A squint, glance.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > sideways
side-lookinga1500
side looka1586
blench1609
side glance1611
leera1616
skew1622
askewa1641
gloat1645
glega1650
by-glancea1658
squint1673
by-view1753
sklent1818
glee1828
squinny1902
1902 Daily Chron. 23 Sept. 3/4 Now and then heads were deliberately turned from us, and not a creature gave us more than a side~long squinny.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
squinnyadj.1
/ˈskwɪni/ Very thin or slender; lean, meagre; narrow.
a. In the comb. squinny-gut(s). Also in combinations.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. iii. 151 The Coachman..was asked..whom he had in his Coach? ‘A Parcel of Squinny-gut B——s’ (says he). View more context for this quotation
1791 C. Smith Celestina I. 134 Mayn't I talk to a handsome girl I wonder without your putting in your squinnygut opinion?
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 392 Squinny-guts, a thin person.
1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 73 A regler squinny guts.
b. In general use.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
1784 C. A. Burney Let. 16 Jan. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 315 A German doctor..with a club [of hair] as thick as my two hands, and two squinney curls.
1838 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 175 I am very busy now, translating a story with my little squinny Moonshee.
1866 Daily Tel. 22 Feb. 5/4 The eleven thousand windows want height; they are mostly of ‘squinny’ proportions.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. iv. 136 Those figures and faces, small, scrofulous, squinny, and haggard, which disgrace the so-called civilization of a British city.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
squinnyadj.2
Squinting; looking askance; peering.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [adjective] > sideways
askanted1576
squintinga1593
askance1593
squint1611
leer1631
skaunt1791
squinnya1825
sideways-looking1832
cockeyed1852
skance1866
squinnying1973
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) We talk also of having ‘squinny eyes’, and of being ‘squinny-eyed’.
1850 Poor Artist v. 65 Don't sit all of a shrug up there, peering over with your squinny eyes.
1885 W. B. Forfar Poems 20 We saw the queer Chineese. Their fa-aces are so white as milk, With little squinney eyes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
squinnyv.1
/ˈskwɪni/ 1. intransitive. To squint, look askance; to peer with partly closed eyes. Also const. at or to.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look sideways
schule?c1225
to look asidec1230
bagge1369
gogglec1380
to look awryc1400
slizec1400
leer1530
to look askew1538
skew1570
gloat1576
to glance one's eye, look1590
squean1608
squinny1608
squint1610
sken1611
sleer1680
glime1684
skime1691
side-glance1799
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > peer
toot?c1225
porec1300
pirea1393
peer1580
pink1587
under-peer1589
blink1600
to look wormsc1600
squinny1608
pee1673
pore1706
pinker1754
styme1808
speer1866
squint1891
quiz1906
skeeze1922
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 131 I remember thy eyes well inough, dost thou squiny on me. View more context for this quotation
1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. A3v The world queasie stomackt,..squinies at this and lookes as one scorning.
1783 F. Burney Diary 4 Jan. (1842) II. 229 Mr. P——, at last, spied me out, and came squinying up to me.
1838 J. C. Maitland Lett. from Madras (1843) 201 Squinnying cunningly at me the whole time, to see if I look as if I believe them.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 288 Squiny, to look askance.
2. transitive. To direct (the eyes) obliquely; to close up partly in a short-sighted manner.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look sideways at > turn (eyes) sideways
blenchc1400
skew1577
goggle1582
askance1594
squinta1616
squinnya1825
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) Child, do not squinny your eyes so.
1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 35 So he ‘squinnied’ up his eyes, and pulled his huge moustaches.
Draft additions 1993
ˈsquinnying adj.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [adjective] > sideways
askanted1576
squintinga1593
askance1593
squint1611
leer1631
skaunt1791
squinnya1825
sideways-looking1832
cockeyed1852
skance1866
squinnying1973
1973 G. M. Brown Magnus iv. 75 Creak of parchment. Old crafty squinnying eyes. Old parchment mouth moving.
1984 Listener 9 Aug. 19/2 I noticed, through my squinnying gaze, a pink bulky man in an electric-blue suit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
squinnyv.2
/ˈskwɪni/ intransitive. To weep or cry; to fret.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > cry with grief [verb (intransitive)] > cry feebly or plaintively
whingea1150
whinec1275
plaina1425
fipple?1507
whimper1513
mewla1530
pulea1535
whimp1549
whewla1560
simper1613
whindle1709
grizzle1842
squinny1847
wimick1850
mizzlea1935
1847– in dial. glossaries (Hants, I. Wight).
1861 G. Meredith Evan Harrington II. vi. 108 You are crying!.. And you show the marks twice as long as any other, you fair women. Squinnying like this!
1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 245 Who'd have thought of seeing us two squinnying? Blowed if I didn't cry harder than you.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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