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squint-eyed

squint-eyed adjective: cross-eyed; having eyes that squint.

Adjective

squint-eyed (comparative more squint-eyed, superlative most squint-eyed)

  1. Cross-eyed; having eyes that squint.
    • You are the millions, we are multitude
      And multitude and multitude.
      Come, fight! Yea, we are Scythians,
      Yea, Asians, a squint-eyed, greedy brood.1921, Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky (translators), Alexander Blok (original), (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Scythians
  2. Malignant.
    • sqint-ey'd Praise1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, →OCLC, (please specify the page)
    • squint-eyed jealousy1754, John Brown, Barbarossa

squint-eyed meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Sanskrit

squint-eyed in Hindi

squint-eyed, cross-eyed
भेंगा bheṅgā

squint-eyed in Tamil

ஒருக்கணிப்புப் பார்வையுடைய

squint-eyed in Marathi

squint-eyed
तिरसा tirsā

squint-eyed in Sanskrit

squint-eyed
केकर kekara, टगर ṭagara, टेर ṭera
More languagesFewer languages
squint-eyed in Tagalog
sulimpat, sulipat

Forms of squint-eyed

comparativemore squint-eyed
superlativemost squint-eyed

Questions about squint-eyed

What does squint-eyed mean?
Squint-eyed means cross-eyed; having eyes that squint.
What is squint-eyed in Hindi?
Squint-eyed in Hindi is भेंगा (bheṅgā). See Squint-eyed meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is squint-eyed?
Squint-eyed is an adjective.

Words near squint-eyed in the dictionary

  1. squinsies
  2. squinsy
  3. squint
  4. squint like a bag of nails
  5. squint-a-pipes
  6. squint-eyed
  7. squinted
  8. squinted like a bag of nails
  9. squinter
  10. squinters
  11. squintest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: squint-eyed (page history and authors); भेंगा (Hindi) (page history and authors); squint-eyed (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); तिरसा (Marathi) (page history and authors); केकर (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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