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asquint
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective asquint has 1 sense
- asquint(s = adj.all) askance, askant, sidelong, squint, squint-eyed, squinty - (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"; "sidelong glances"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
asquint, predic.adj. & adv. (usu. look asquint).
1 to one side; from the corner of an eye.
2 with a squint.
1 to one side; from the corner of an eye.
2 with a squint.
Etymology
ME perh. f. Du. schuinte slant
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