Lexicographical Neighbors of Squinnies
Literary usage of Squinnies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"140; ' How scornfully she squinnies', Shirley, Sisters, ii. 2 (Antonio). In prov.
use in various parts of England (EDD.). squire, squier, a ' square', ..."
2. 3800 Miles Across Canada by John Wilton Cuninghame Haldane (1908)
"Facts which the Glum Grums and squinnies of society either do not know, or do
not care to know, and therefore miss much that would brighten their miserable ..."
3. The Jacobite Relics of Scotland: Being the Songs, Airs, and Legends, of the by James Hogg (1821)
"Soon a pack was chose, all constitution's foes, Of quacks and squinnies, rakes
and ninnies, ..."
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