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单词 squint-eyed
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squint-eyedadj.

/ˈskwɪntʌɪd/
Etymology: < squint adv.
1.
a. Of persons: Having squint eyes; affected with squint or strabismus.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > squinting or cross-eyed
wall-eyeda1400
thwartingc1430
gleed1482
pink-eyed1519
goggle1540
squint1579
squint-eyed1589
squinted1591
squinting1611
moon-eyed1623
squink-eyed1632
asquint1643
skew-eyed1658
cockeyed1751
yaw-sighted1751
swivel-eyed1758
cross-eyed1791
slew-eyed1807
skellied1821
squinny-eyeda1825
strabismic1855
boss-eyed1860
strabismical1866
hyperphoric1887
strabismal1891
heterophoric1894
squinty1922
squinty1925
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xiv. 26 He was squint eyed and had a very vnpleasant countenance.
1602 N. Breton Wonders worth Hearing in Wks. (1879) II. 8/1 Though she were squinte eyed,..wry bodyed, and splay footed.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. viii. 147 Those glass-eyes which squint ey'd-people wore.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 6/2 People hump-back'd, squint-eyed, crooked and lame.
1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 37 I have since learned, that this Patient..became squint-ey'd and deformed.
1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 165 Daughters, halt, and wrinkled, and squint-eyed.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xix. 261 That squint-eyed publican who thrashes his wife.
b. In allusive or figurative use.
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1563 A. Neville in B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. A.iiiv Defye them all. μισάνθρωποι and squynteyd Monsters ryght They are.
1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶ijv Euerie blind corner hath a squint eyed Zoilus, that can looke a right vpon no mans doings.
1620–6 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes 855 in Wks. (1880) II. 17 Others, whom the squint-ey'd world counts holy.
1620–6 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes 1482 in Wks. (1880) II. 22 Heart-gnawing Hatred, and Squint-ey'd Suspition.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 20 All the squint-ey'd, wry-neck'd, and brasen-faced Errors that are..of that litter.
1712 T. Parnell in Spectator No. 460. ⁋3 Upon the broad Top of it resided squint-eyed Errour, and Popular Opinion with many Heads.
1755 J. Brown Barbarossa i. 12 In these Walks..wakeful Suspicion dwells, And squint-ey'd Jealousy.
2. Characterized by squint or oblique vision. Also figurative.
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1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 40 Who would imagine that such squint-ey'd sight Could strike the worlds deformities so right.
1616 R. Carpenter Christs Larvmbell 49 in Pastoral Charge That squint-ey'd partialitie, so much condemned by the Apostle.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. Polit. Touch-stone in tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 401 A squint-ey'd look, wherewith while she seem to look fixedly upon one, she is very intent on observing another.
1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 71 To which squint-ey'd Mode in war Scanderbeg stands endebted for most of his Victories against the Ottomanes.

Derivatives

squint-eyedness n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > squinting or cross-eyes
cast1505
squint-eyedness1591
squinting1626
squinta1652
squintness1656
strabism1656
strabismus1684
cockeye1738
goggle-eye1822
nystagmus1822
cross-eyes1826
cross-eyedness1846
anorthopia1849
heterophthalmy1854
hyperphoria1881
heterophoria1886
hypertropia1897
intorsion1899
hypophoria1932
prairie squint1937
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Entortadura Squinteidnes, crookedness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1563
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