Meanings
comparative more squint-eyed · superlative most squint-eyed
- Cross-eyed; having eyes that squint.
You are the millions, we are multitude And multitude and multitude. Come, fight! Yea, we are Scythians, Yea, Asians, a squint-eyed, greedy brood.
1921, Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky (translators), Alexander Blok (original), (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Scythians - Malignant.
sqint-ey'd Praise
1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, →OCLC, (please specify the page)2 more examples
squint-eyed jealousy
1754, John Brown, Barbarossasquint-eyed spite
a. 1839, Robert Fraser, "Vanitas, Vanitatum, Vanitas!" (translated from German, original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Ancient Greek στραβός
- στραβός (strabós)having eyes that squint
Bulgarian кривоглед
- кривоглед (krivogled)having eyes that squint
German schielend
- schielendhaving eyes that squint
Irish fiarshúileach
- fiarshúileachhaving eyes that squint
Latin paetus, līmulus
- paetushaving eyes that squint
- līmulushaving eyes that squint
Polish zezowaty
- zezowatyhaving eyes that squint
Tagalog sulimpat, sulipat
- sulimpathaving eyes that squint
- sulipathaving eyes that squint
Cite this entry
squint-eyed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/squint-eyed
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