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Squint-eyed

Definition: Squint-eyed

Squint-eyed

Adjective

1. Affected by strabismus.

2. (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 "squint-eyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Squint-eyed

DomainDefinition

Literature

Squint-eyed [Guercino ]. Gian francesco Barbieri, the great painter. (1590-1666). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Squint-eyed

Synonyms: askance (adj), askant (adj), asquint (adj), sidelong (adj), squint (adj), squinty (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Squint-eyed

English words defined with "squint-eyed": Swivel-eyed. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Squint-eyed

"Squint-eyed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Squint-eyed" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Squint-eyed

Language Translations for "squint-eyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

kierosilmäinen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

int-eyedsquay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

severo (austere, bad, bitter, blue, censorious, close, closet, cornered, dour, grim, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard-faced, hard-grained, harsh, inclement, iron-bound, joggly, keen, pointed, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, scathing, severe, smart, stern, stiff, strait, straitlaced, strict, stringent), sarcástico (acrid, backhanded, ironic, pungent, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, sneering), mordaz (acrid, bitter, clear-sighted, double-tongued, incisive, keen, mordacious, pepper, peppery, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, sharp, slashing, stinging, tart, trenchant, virulent), fulminante (detonator, fulminant, primer, scathing, thundering), cruel (atrocious, barbaric, bitter, bloody, boarish, candle-wick, cruel, dark, fell, felon, fierce, grim, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, iron, merciless, pitiless, ruffian, ruthless, scathing, severe, shrewish, tigerish, tigrish, truculent, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, wicked, wolfish), contundente (bruising, pointed, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, slashing, stinging). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

косой (bevel, cock eyed, cock-eye, cross-eyed, leer, oblique, sidelong, skew, slantindicular, slanting, slantingdicular, splay, squinteyed, thwart, walleyed), предубежденный. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lác mắt có ác ý. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Squint-eyed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-q-s-t-u-y"

-2 letters: detinues, quietens, sequined, squinted.

-3 letters: density, destine, destiny, detinue, dunites, endites, equines, equites, inquest, quested, quieted, quieten, quintes, sequent, squinty, syenite.

-4 letters: denies, dienes, dunite, duties, endite, endues, ensued, equids, equine, equity, etudes, indues, nested, nudest, nudies, nudist, nudity, queens, quiets, quinsy, quinte, quints, seined, sequin, squint, suited, syndet, teensy, teinds, tensed, tenues.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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