Asquint

Definition: Asquint

Asquint

Adjective

1. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "asquint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Asquint \A*squint"\, adverb. [Compare to Askant, Squint.]. (references)

Synonyms: Asquint

Crosswords: Asquint

Albanian

shtrembër (askew, atilt, awry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

с крайчеца на окото, накриво (acock, askew, aslant, athwart, awry, criss cross, haywire). (various references)

Greek 

καμμύων (twinkler), λοξώσ (askance, bias, sideway, sideways, slantwise). (various references)

Hungarian

kancsalul. (various references)

Pig Latin

asquintay.(various references)

Portuguese

vesgo (cockeye, cockeyed, leer), oblíquo (aslant, aslope, awry, canted, oblique, sideling, sidelong, skew, slanting, sloping, wry), lateralmente (sideward, sidewards, sideways), lateral (incidental, lateral, off, side, sidelong). (various references)

Romanian

pieziş (askew, aslant, awry, hostile, oblique, obliquely, scowling, slanting, splay, wry), oblic (aslant, athwart, bias, diagonal, inclined, oblique, obliquely, sidelong, skew, slanting, sloping, splay, squint, transverse), chiorâş (askance, askant, askew, awry, squint). (various references)

Russian 

косо (askance, askew, aslant, aslope, awry, slantwise). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

iskosa (askance). (various references)

Thai

เข. (various references)

Turkish

yan (ancillary, aslant, awry, by-, bye-, collateral, flank, flanking, lateral, parietal, side, sidelong, sideward, subordinate), şaşı gibi. (various references)

Vietnamese 

xiên (askew, bias, oblique, slanting, slantways, slantwise), nghiêng (askew, over, sideling, skew, slant, slanting, slantways, slantwise, slopewise, sloping). (various references)

Misspellings

"Asquint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acquint, Aescwine, aksunite, Aquin, aquint, basquiats, equint, Masquing, Pasquini, Rasquin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: quintas.

-1 letter: quaint, quants, quinta, quints, squint.

-2 letters: antis, aunts, quais, quant, quasi, quins, quint, quits, saint, satin, squat, stain, suint, tains, tunas, unais, units.

-3 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, anus, aunt, nits, nuts, qats, quai, quin, quit, sain, sati, snit, stun, suit, tain, tans, taus, tins, tuis, tuna, tuns, unai, unit, utas.

-4 letters: ain.

+1 letter: antiques, quantics, quinnats, quintals, quintans, quintars.

+2 letters: acquaints, antiquers, aquatints, equations, quaintest, quantiles, quantizes, quatrains, quintains, squatting.

+3 letters: antiquarks, antiquates, clinquants, equestrian, liquations, quaintness, quantifies, quantities, quantizers, quittances, quotations, quotidians, sequential, squamation.

+4 letters: acquiescent, acquisition, antiquaries, antiquities, aquatinters, aquatintist, disquantity, equestrians, equidistant, equitations, equivalents, gigantesque, piquantness, quantifiers, quantitates, quarantines, quarterings, quaternions, questionary, reacquaints, squamations, squattering, tranquilest.