squint
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Etymology
Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skwɪnt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪnt
Verb
squint (third-person singular simple present squints, present participle squinting, simple past and past participle squinted)
- (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
- The children squinted to frighten each other.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
- (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
- 1887, The Forum:
- Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
- (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
- (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
- to squint an eye
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Translations
to look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight
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to look or glance sideways
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to look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions
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Noun
squint (plural squints)
- An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
- The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
- He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
- A quick or sideways glance.
- (informal) A short look; a peep.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- —And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
—Give us a squint at her, says I.
- A hagioscope.
- (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
Derived terms
Translations
expression in which the eyes are partly closed
look of eyes which are turned in different directions, like in strabismus
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quick or sideways glance
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short look
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hagioscope — see hagioscope
offset angle of transmission
Adjective
squint
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