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squinny

squinny verb: to squint.

Verb

squinny (third-person singular simple present squinnies, present participle squinnying, simple past and past participle squinnied)

  1. (intransitive) To squint.
    • Those who had equipped themselves with a price list were forced into the crude necessity of asking the drinkers to move so as to get some distance on the martyrs or to squinny at the numbered labels.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 230

Noun

squinny (plural squinnies)

  1. (slang) A chipmunk.

Forms of squinny

Verb
third-person singular presentsquinnies
present participlesquinnying
past participlesquinnied
pastsquinnied
Noun
pluralsquinnies

Questions about squinny

What does squinny mean?
Squinny means to squint.
What part of speech is squinny?
Squinny can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of squinny?
The past tense of squinny is squinnied.

Words near squinny in the dictionary

  1. squinks
  2. squinney
  3. squinneys
  4. squinnied
  5. squinnies
  6. squinny
  7. squinnying
  8. squinsies
  9. squinsy
  10. squint
  11. squint like a bag of nails

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