Squint

Definition: Squint

Squint

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".

Noun

1. Abnormal alignment of one or both eyes.

Verb

1. Partly close one's eyes; "The children squinted to frighten each other".

2. Be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus.

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

Date "squint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Note: Squint \Squint\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Squinted; Squinting.]. (references)

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Synonyms: Squint

Crosswords: Squint

I don't have a squint! (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

If I had a squint, it would certainly improve yours (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

Y'know, you really ought to do something about that squint. (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

You know, if you did have a squint, it might actually improve your appearance (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

Squint your eyes and look closer (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis)

Look at the hurt in your eyes they squint closed (Young'n; performing artist: Fabolous)

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

Books

• A squint down under (reference)

• If You Squint at a Rhinoceros... (reference)

• Mr. Squint (reference)

• Our Sister Killjoy: Or, Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint (African Classics) (reference)

• Squint (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expressions using "squint": accommodative squint ♦ paretic squint ♦ squint at ♦ squint eyed ♦ squint towards ♦ vertical squint. Additional references.

Beginning with "squint": squint-angle, squint-eye, squint-eyed, squint-through.

Ending with "squint": out-squint, pucker-cum-squint.

Albanian

shoh vëngër, vëngëri, picëroj sytë (screw up one's eyes), i vëngër (cockeye, leer, wall eyed), i hedh një sy (look over, take a gander at smth.). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نظر شزرا (leer, skew), ‏حولان, ‏حول عينيه, ‏حول العين, ‏غمض عينيه نصف إغماضة, ‏خزرة, ‏الحول, ‏إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, nose, pervert, sidetrack, skew, slew, slue, stray, swerve, swing, turn, veer), ‏أحول (cock eyed, cross-eyed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, bias, disposition, fancy, fondness, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), разноглед (skew eyed), хвърлям бърз поглед (glimpse, sweep), кривогледство (strabismus), кривоглед съм (be cross eyed), кривоглед (cockeyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, squint eyed, squinting, strabismic, swivel-eyed), клоня (converge, incline, lean, sway, trend), малък отвор в стена на църква, бърз поглед (eyebeam, look in, look-see), бегъл поглед (glance, glimpse, look in, look-see, scan), присвивам очи. (various references)

Chinese 

斜眼看 (Squinted, squinting), 乜 . (various references)

Czech

dívat se úkosem, šilhavost, šilhavý (cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, squint eyed), šilhat (be cross eyed), šilhání (cast). (various references)

Danish

strabismus (strabismus), squint (squint angle), skelen (cross-eye, squinting eye, strabismus), retningsvinkelfejl (squint-angle). (various references)

Dutch

scheelzien (look askance), loensen (look askance). (various references)

Esperanto

strabi (look askance). (various references)

Faeroese

skeita (look askance). (various references)

Farsi 

چپ نگاه کردن (Goggle), چپ , نگاه باچشم نیم باز, لوچی , لوچ بودن , لوچ (Cockeyed, Crosseyed), احولی , دوبینی . (various references)

Finnish

suuntavirhe (squint angle, squint-angle), kierosilmäisyys, katsoa kieroon (have a cast in one's eye), karsastus (distortion), karsastaa. (various references)

French

loucher, strabisme. (various references)

German

schielen (be boss-eyed, be cross eyed, look askance, strabismus, to squint). (various references)

Greek 

αλλοιθωρίζω. (various references)

Hebrew 

לפזול (be cross eyed, leer), ל�"ציץ (gaze, glance at, peek, peep, peer, pry), פזיל�" (cast, squinting, starbismus), פזל� ות. (various references)

Hungarian

kancsalság (squinting), kancsal (be cross eyed, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, squint eyed, swivel-eyed), bandzsítás (leer), sandítás, sanda (cockeyed), futó pillantás (glimpse), bandzsa (swivel-eyed). (various references)

Indonesian

memicingkan (close one's eyes), kerdipan, juling (cross-eyed, lynx). (various references)

Italian

strabico (cockeyed, cross-eyed, squinter, squinting, strabismus). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

僻目 (bias, misjudgment, misunderstanding, sight error), 斜視 (strabismus). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゃし (extravagance, history of a company, luxury, strabismus), ひがめ (attacking with fire, bias, misjudgment, misunderstanding, sight error, torture by fire). (various references)

Manx

slydaght (disingenuousness, leer). (various references)

Pig Latin

intsquay.(various references)

Portuguese

estrabismo (cockeye, strabismus). (various references)

Romanian

saşiu (cock eyed, squint eyed, squinting, squintingly), strabism (cross eye), oblic (aslant, asquint, athwart, bias, diagonal, inclined, oblique, obliquely, sidelong, skew, slanting, sloping, splay, transverse), înclinaţie (addiction, aptness, disposition, grain, hade, inclination, incline, individuality, lean, leaning, mind, notion, partiality, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, relish, set, taste, tendency, turn, twist, vein, vocation), înclinat (aslope, atilt, declivous, inclinable, inclined, lop-sided, minded, oblique, overhung, prone, rising, slanting, sloping, splay), îndoielnic (ambiguous, arguable, debatable, doubtful, in doubt, lax, otiose, suspicious, uncertain), bãnuitor (distrustful, leery, mistrustful, mistrustfully, suspicious, yellow), chiorâş (askance, askant, askew, asquint, awry), închide ochii pe jumãtate, cu privire rãutãcioasã, ocheadã (glance), privi chiorâş, privire şasie, privire pe furiş, rãuvoitor (evil-disposed, evil-minded, ill disposed, malevolent, malign, mischievous), cruciş (across, aslant, crossing, crosswise, hostile, slantwise, squinting). (various references)

Russian 

скосить (mow down), смотреть искоса (skew), косоглазый (cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, skew-eyed, squinter), косоглазие (strabismus), косить (cut, decimate, mow, mown, scythe, slant), жмуриться косоглазие. (various references)

Scottish

spleuc (spread out by trampling), claon (go aside, inclining, oblique, partial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zrikav (be cross eyed, cross-eyed, goggle), razrokost (wall eye, walleye), razroko gledati, razrok (cock eyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, squinteyed, swivel-eyed), pogled iskosa, koji žmirka (squinteyed), žmirkati (nictate, nictitate), žmiriti (screw up one's eyes), žmirenje, škiljiti, škiljenje. (various references)

Spanish

estrabismo (squint angle, strabismus), bizcar (strabismus). (various references)

Swedish

vindögdhet, skela. (various references)

Turkish

yan bakan (squint eyed), yan bakış (side glance), meyilli olmak (batter, be inclined, lean, shelve, slant, slope, sway), eğilimi olmak (be disposed to, incline, slant, sway, tend), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, slant, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist), şaşılık (cast in the eye, squinting, strabismus), şaşı yapmak, şaşı olmak, şaşı bakmak (goggle, squint at), şaşı bakma, şaşı (boss-eyed, cockeyed, crosseyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, squint eyed, squinting). (various references)

Ukrainian

схилятися (bow, decline), скошений (bevelled, canting, sloping), косоокість (cross eye, strabismus, wall eye), косоокий (cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, squint eyed, squinting, swivel-eyed, wall eyed), коситися, з підозрілим поглядом, похилість (bias, declivity), погляд скоса, дивитися скоса (leer, look awry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự xem sự nghiêng về. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "squint": squinted, squinter, squinters, squintest, squintier, squintiest, squinting, squintingly, squints, squinty. (additional references)

Words ending with "squint": asquint. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Squint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aquin, aquint, equant, equint, quinnt, scint, sgint, skwint, sqint, squaint, squan, squand, squiet, squilt, squin, squing, squink, squinn, squins, sunit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: quints.

-1 letter: quins, quint, quits, suint, units.

-2 letters: nits, nuts, quin, quit, snit, stun, suit, tins, tuis, tuns, unit.

-3 letters: ins, its, nit, nus, nut, sin, sit, sun, suq, tin, tis, tui, tun, uns, uts.

-4 letters: in, is, it, nu, si, ti, un, us, ut.

+1 letter: asquint, inquest, quintas, quintes, squints, squinty.

+2 letters: antiques, inquests, inquiets, quantics, questing, question, quietens, quinnats, quintals, quintans, quintars, quintets, quintics, quintins, squinted, squinter, uniquest, unquiets.

+3 letters: acquaints, antiquers, aquatints, equations, quaintest, quantiles, quantizes, quatrains, questions, quiescent, quietness, quiltings, quintains, quintiles, quitrents, quotients, squatting, squinters, squintest, squintier, squinting, squirting.

+4 letters: antiquarks, antiquates, clinquants, equestrian, equinities, equipments, inequities, iniquities, iniquitous, inquisitor, liquations, liquescent, misquoting, quaintness, quantifies, quantities, quantizers, queenliest, quercetins, questioned, questioner, quintettes, quintuples, quittances, quotations, quotidians, requesting, sequential, squamation, squinniest, squintiest, techniques, unquietest.