squint-eyed

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

1. cross-eyed; having eyes that squint.
   • 1921, Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky (translators), Alexander Blok (original), (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Scythians:

     You are the millions, we are multitude
     And multitude and multitude.
     Come, fight! Yea, we are Scythians,
     Yea, Asians, a squint-eyed, greedy brood.

2. malignant.
   • 1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     sqint-ey'd Praise

   • 1754, John Brown, Barbarossa:

     squint-eyed jealousy

   • a. 1839, Robert Fraser, "Vanitas, Vanitatum, Vanitas!" (translated from German, original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

     squint-eyed spite

• “squint-eyed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.