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▪ I. ˈsquinny, n.1 ? Obs.
[Cf. squinny a.1]
(See quot. 1840.)
1716Coll. State Songs, Poems, etc. 19 Soon a Pack was chose..Of Quacks and Squinnys, Rakes and Ninnys, Green and Grizled Beaus. 1840Spurdens Suppl. Forby, Squinny, a contemptible fellow.
▪ II. ˈsquinny, n.2
[f. the vb.]
A squint, glance.
1881–in dial. glossaries (Leic., Notts., Warw.). 1902Daily Chron. 23 Sept. 3/4 Now and then heads were deliberately turned from us, and not a creature gave us more than a side⁓long squinny.
▪ III. squinny, a.1|ˈskwɪnɪ|
[Of obscure origin.]
Very thin or slender; lean, meagre; narrow. a. In the comb. squinny-gut(s. Also Comb.
1742Fielding Andrews ii. iii, The coachman..was asked..what passengers he had in his coach? A parcel of squinny-gut b―s (says he). 1791C. Smith Celestina (ed. 2) I. 134 Mayn't I talk to a handsome girl I wonder without your putting in your squinnygut opinion? 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Squinny-guts, a thin person. 1886W. H. Long Isle of Wight Gloss. 73 A regler squinny guts.
b. In general use.
1784F. Burney Early Diary, Lett. 16 Jan., A German doctor..with a club [of hair] as thick as my two hands, and two squinney curls. 1838[Miss Maitland] Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 175, I am very busy now, translating a story with my little squinny Moonshee. 1866Daily Tel. 22 Feb. 5/4 The eleven thousand windows want height; they are mostly of ‘squinny’ proportions. 1871Kingsley At Last iv, Those figures and faces, small, scrofulous, squinny, and haggard, which disgrace the so-called civilization of a British city.
▪ IV. ˈsquinny, a.2
[Cf. next.]
Squinting; looking askance; peering.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 322 We talk also of having ‘squinny eyes’, and of being ‘squinny-eyed’. 1850Poor Artist v. 65 Don't sit all of a shrug up there, peering over with your squinny eyes. 1885W. B. Forfar Poems 20 We saw the queer Chineese. Their fa-aces are so white as milk, With little squinney eyes.
▪ V. squinny, v.1|ˈskwɪnɪ|
Also squiny.
[Cf. squinny a.2]
1. intr. To squint, look askance; to peer with partly closed eyes. Also const. at or to.
1605Shakes. Lear iv. vi. 140, I remember thine eyes well enough: dost thou squiny at me? 1608R. Armin Nest of Ninnies (1842) 6 The World, queasie stomackt,..squinies at this, and lookes as one scorning. 1783F. Burney Diary 4 Jan., Mr. P―, at last, spied me out, and came squinying up to me. 1838Miss Maitland Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 201 Squinnying cunningly at me the whole time, to see if I look as if I believe them. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Squiny, to look askance.
2. trans. To direct (the eyes) obliquely; to close up partly in a short-sighted manner.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 322 Child, do not squinny your eyes so. 1890W. A. Wallace Only a Sister? 35 So he ‘squinnied’ up his eyes, and pulled his huge moustaches.
Add: Hence ˈsquinnying ppl. a.
1973G. M. Brown Magnus iv. 75 Creak of parchment. Old crafty squinnying eyes. Old parchment mouth moving. 1984Listener 9 Aug. 19/2, I noticed, through my squinnying gaze, a pink bulky man in an electric-blue suit.
▪ VI. squinny, v.2|ˈskwɪnɪ|
[Of obscure origin.]
intr. To weep or cry; to fret.
1847–in dial. glossaries (Hants, I. Wight). 1861G. Meredith Evan Harrington xxi, You are crying!.. And you show the marks twice as long as any other, you fair women. Squinnying like this! 1885J. Runciman Skippers & Sh. 245 Who'd have thought of seeing us two squinnying? Blowed if I didn't cry harder than you. |