Meaning & use
Squinny
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To look at something with eyes partly closed, as if squinting suspiciously or peering closely.
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He squinnied at the faded map, trying to make out the old road names.
The old woman squinnied through her spectacles at the fine print on the label.
A note on using this word
"Squinny" appears famously in Shakespeare's "King Lear," and it survives today mainly as a dialect word in parts of England.
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