different between squint vs squinny

English

Etymology

Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skw?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

squint (third-person singular simple present squints, present participle squinting, simple past and past participle squinted)

1. (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

2. (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
3. (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
   • The Forum

     Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.

5. (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
6. (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.

Synonyms

(quick glance):

• skelly

Translations

Noun

squint (plural squints)

1. An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
2. The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.

   He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.

4. A quick or sideways glance.
5. A short look.
6. A hagioscope.
7. (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.

Derived terms

• squintless
• squinty

Translations

Adjective

squint

1. Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
2. (Scotland) askew, not level

Related terms

• cross-eyed

Anagrams

• quints

English

Verb

squinny (third-person singular simple present squinnies, present participle squinnying, simple past and past participle squinnied)

1. (intransitive) To squint.
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 230

     Those who had equipped themselves with a price list were forced into the crude necessity of asking the drinkers to move so as to get some distance on the martyrs or to squinny at the numbered labels.