squinny-eyed, a. Chiefly dial.
Also squin(n)ey-.
[f. squinny a.2]
= squint-eyed a.
a 1825– in dial. glossaries (E. Anglia, Cornwall, Somerset, Devon). 1864 Sala in Daily Tel. 2 July, The bandy-legged columns,..the splay-footed pedestals,..the squinney-eyed windows of the Manhattan Hotel de Ville. |