squint-eyed

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English

Adjective

squint-eyed (comparative more squint-eyed, superlative most squint-eyed)

  1. cross-eyed; having eyes that squint.
    • 1921, Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky (translators), Alexander Blok (original), (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Scythians:
      You are the millions, we are multitude
      And multitude and multitude.
      Come, fight! Yea, we are Scythians,
      Yea, Asians, a squint-eyed, greedy brood.
  2. malignant.
    • 1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. , 2nd edition, London: J M for H Herringman, , published 1667, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
      sqint-ey'd Praise
    • 1754, John Brown, Barbarossa:
      squint-eyed jealousy
    • a. 1839, Robert Fraser, "Vanitas, Vanitatum, Vanitas!" (translated from German, original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
      squint-eyed spite

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