a. [f. as prec.] Suggestive of, characterized by, squeezing; having a compressed or confined character. Also fig.
1751. Gray, Lett. (1900), I. 216. The Women are few here, squeezy & formal, and little skill’d in amusing themselves or other People.
1759. Compl. Lett.-writer (1768), 217. After her,… by Way of Contrast, the squeezy Mrs. Ellen Risborough, contracting her Minuteness to a Shadow, with Stays … pinching her like [a] Pair of Nutcrackers.
1825. T. H. Lister, Granby, xvii. (1836), 110. And then another squeezy quadrille, and so on.
1843. Mrs. Romer, Rhone, Darro, etc. II. 142. A squeezy little room just large enough to contain my bed.
1866. Miss Braddon, Lady’s Mile, vii. The deliciously-squeezy little drawing-rooms and ante-chambers … in Mayfair.
