squintyadj.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective]
embelifc1400
inclining?c1400
oblique?a1425
inclinate?1440
hieldingc1480
inclined?a1500
bias1551
overthwart1594
sidelong1598
squinty1598
skew1609
traverse1609
skewed1611
obliquous1614
squint1703
inclinated1751
slanting1768
slanted1770
slant1776
aslant1791
diagonal1796
rakish1830
slantindicular1832
slantwise1856
slaunchways1913
slanty1928
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Bieco, squintie, sidelin, crooked, twart, awrie.
2.
a. Of persons: = squint-eyed adj. 1b.
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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
1819 J. Keats Let. 20 Sept. (1958) II. 204 I am like a squinti(n)g [squinty: 1931 ed.] gentleman who saying soft things to one Lady ogles another.]
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 334 She knew right well..what made squinty Edy say that because of him cooling in his attentions.
1957 Numbers (N.Z.) Mar. 16 I was only a squinty little third-former.
b. Of the eyes: characterized by squint or oblique vision.
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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
1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. i. ii. 174 The young girl with the yellow hair and squinty blue eyes.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp ii. 37 The eyes..as red-lidded and squinty as a pig's.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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