a. Chiefly dial. Also squin(n)ey-. [f. SQUINNY a.2] = SQUINT-EYED a.
a. 1825–. in dial. glossaries (E. Anglia, Cornwall, Somerset, Devon).
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 27 July, 5/3. The most paltry style is palpable in the bandy-legged columns, the top-heavy capitals, the splay-footed pedestals, the overloaded architraves, the squinny-eyed windows of the Manhattan Hotel de Ville.
