squinting
English edit
Verb edit
squinting
- present participle and gerund of squint
Noun edit
squinting (plural squintings)
- The act of one who squints.
- 1828, The Harvard Register: no. I-XII, March, 1827-Feb. 1828, page 153:
- I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple […]