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Definition of Squinny
1. squinty [v -NIED, -NYING, -NIES] - See also: squinty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squinny
Literary usage of Squinny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"Mr. Squinny will not give much for my opinion of my pupil, ... Can't Mr.
Squinny get a cab 1 " For a moral man, was not the little knight a clever ..."
2. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"Squinny-gutt, a thin person. Also to look askew or jeeringly, with the eye-lids
nearly closed. Thus poor old Lear— Dost thou ..."
3. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"Perhaps it is to be considered as a dimin. of squander. The fuel or the candle
is unprofitable wasted. Squinny, r. 1. To look asquint. ..."
4. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"Ex. " Child, do not squinny your eyes so." 2. To cause to look asquint. To produce
that uneasy sensation, which is produced by objects obliquely and ..."
5. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"Thus poor old Lear— Dost thou squinny at me ? iv. 6. ... Nares merely gives "
Squinny, a colloquial change of the verb to squint;" and the above quotation ..."
6. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"Mr. Squinny will not give much for my opinion of my pupil, but he will value ...
He had bought Mr. Squinny for a dinner worth ten shillings, and for a ride ..."
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