Definitions for squint

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Spelling: [skwint]

IPA: /skwɪnt/

Squint is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in squint (inqstu).

Definitions for squint

noun

1. an act or instance of squinting.
2. Ophthalmology. a condition of the eye consisting in noncoincidence of the optic axes; strabismus.
3. Informal. a quick glance:
4. a looking obliquely or askance.
5. an indirect reference.
6. an inclination or tendency, especially an oblique or perverse one.
7. Also called hagioscope. (in a church) a small opening in a wall giving a view of the altar.

adjective

1. looking obliquely; looking with a side glance; looking askance.
2. Ophthalmology. (of the eyes) affected with strabismus.

verb (used with object)

1. to close (the eyes) partly in looking:
2. to cause to squint; cause to look obliquely.

verb (used without object)

1. to look with the eyes partly closed.
2. Ophthalmology. to be affected with strabismus; be cross-eyed.
3. to look or glance obliquely or sidewise; look askance.
4. to make or have an indirect reference to or bearing on; tend or incline toward (usually followed by toward, at, etc.).

Origin of squint

1350-1400 for earlier adv. sense; 1570-80 for adj. senses; Middle English; aphetic variant of asquint

Examples for squint

Yekaterina Samutsevich tried not to squint in the bright light of the studio lamps.

Yes, and I know that at the amorous crisis he ceases to squint.

You have to squint very hard to make the novel begin to line up with reality.

If you squint, you can see the Home Depot behind it gleaming bright and orange in the clear Texas air.

When startled by anything perplexing he used to squint horribly.

Would the honorable gentleman come and take a squint at Rajah?

Better not look, though; too bad if she had buck teeth or squint eyes.

However, to make sure, maybe I had better have a squint at my compass.

The puncher stopped beside it to squint through the telescope.

I took just one squint at the mob and felt a chill down my spine.