| 释义 |
ˈsquinty, a.
[f. squint a.]
†1. Oblique. Obs.—0
1598Florio, Bieco, squintie, sidelin, crooked, twart, awrie.
2. a. Of persons: = squint-eyed a. 1 a, b.
[1819Keats Let. 20 Sept. (1958) II. 204, I am like a squinti(n)g [squinty: 1931 ed.] gentleman who saying soft things to one Lady ogles another. ]1922Joyce Ulysses 343 She knew right well..what made squinty Edy say that because of him cooling in his attentions. 1957Numbers (N.Z.) Mar. 16, I was only a squinty little third-former.
b. Of the eyes: characterized by squint or oblique vision.
1925T. Dreiser Amer. Tragedy II. i. ii. 174 The young girl with the yellow hair and squinty blue eyes. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp ii. 37 The eyes..as red-lidded and squinty as a pig's. |