squint
verb
[ skwɪnt ]
• look at someone or something with one or both eyes partly closed in an attempt to see more clearly or as a reaction to strong light.
• "the bright sun made them squint"
• have eyes that look in different directions.
• "Melanie did not squint"
Similar:
be cross-eyed,
have a squint,
be skelly,
suffer from strabismus,
be strabismic,
be boss-eyed,
squint
noun
• a permanent deviation in the direction of the gaze of one eye.
• "I had a bad squint"
• a quick or casual look.
• "let me have a squint"
Similar:
look,
glance,
peep,
peek,
glimpse,
view,
examination,
study,
inspection,
scan,
sight,
eyeful,
dekko,
butcher's,
gander,
look-see,
once-over,
shufti,
recce,
geek,
squiz,
Jack Nohi,
• an oblique opening through a wall in a church permitting a view of the altar from an aisle or side chapel.
squint
adjective
• not straight or level.
• "the squint bottom edge of the puzzle"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘squinting’, as in squint-eyed): shortening of asquint.
