squintern.
/ˈskwɪntə/, U.S. /ˈskwɪn(t)ər/ 1. One who squints. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > squinting or cross-eyes > person
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1738 Countess of Pomfret in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) I. 32 He bestows them on such a squinter as thou, and on such a halting cripple as myself.
1771 Warton Oxford Newsman's Verses in Poet. Wks. (1802) II. 217 Nor more..The triumphs of the patriot Squinter..Shall croud each column of our Journal.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 662 I was now a squinter…I squinted like an owl.
1861 J. G. Sheppard Fall of Rome vi. 280 The son of Triar, or the ‘Squinter’, as he was sometimes called, one of the best captains of the age.
2. A squint eye.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > squinting or cross-eyes > squinting eye
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1873 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1883) xliii. 284 The cunning gleam from the black deep ambushed squinters.
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