different between eyes vs asquint
eyes
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?z/
- Rhymes: -a?z
Noun
eyes
- plural of eye
Verb
eyes
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eye
Anagrams
- seye, y'see, ye-es, yees
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asquint
English
Etymology
From Middle English asquint, asquynt, asqweynt, equivalent to a- (“on, at”) +? a word related to Dutch schuinte (“tilt, slant, slope”), Saterland Frisian Schüünte (“slope, slant”), West Frisian skeante (“slope, slant”), German Low German Schüünte (“angle, slant, slope, pitch”). Compare also Middle English askoin, askoyn, of skwyn (“on a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin (“oblique, slanting, sloping”), West Frisian skean (“oblique, slanting, sloping”), German Low German schüün (“slanting”), Norwegian skeina (“to move obliquely”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??skw?nt/
Adjective
asquint (not comparable)
- Looking sideways, as though warily.
Adverb
asquint (not comparable)
- With narrowed eyes.
- 1832 — Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath
- It is not to be supposed, however, that in the delivery of such passages I was found at all deficient in the looking asquint—the showing my teeth—the working my knees—the shuffling my feet—or in any of those unmentionable graces which are now justly considered the characteristics of a popular performe
- 1832 — Edgar Allan Poe, Loss of Breath
Derived terms
- squint
Anagrams
- quaints, quintas
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