[Cf. next.] Squinting; looking askance; peering.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, 322. We talk also of having ‘squinny eyes,’ and of being ‘squinny-eyed.’
1850. [R. H. Horne], Poor Artist, v. 65. Don’t sit all of a shrug up there, peering over with your squinny eyes.
1885. W. B. Forfar, Cornish Poems, 20.
| We saw the queer Chineese. | |
| Their faaces are so white as milk, | |
| With little squinney eyes. |
