squint-eyed

adj — 2 senses

squint-eyed

adj
1

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:
2

malignant.

  • sqint-ey'd Praise1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  • squint-eyed jealousy1754, John Brown, Barbarossa:
1 more example
  • squint-eyed spitea. 1839, Robert Fraser, "Vanitas, Vanitatum, Vanitas!" (translated from German, original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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