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Squirty vs Squinty - What's the difference?

squirty | squinty |

As adjectives the difference between squirty and squinty

is that squirty is that operates by squirting while squinty is afflicted with a squint.

squirty

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (informal) That operates by squirting.
  • * 1917 , John Harrison Dick, Garden Guide, the Amateur Gardener's Handbook
    • Fountains may be of the gurgly, squirty or spray sort; all are pretty. To some the squirty sort have an air of impatience or nervousness
  • * 2005 , Pete McCarthy, The Road to McCarthy
    • Cold Comfort seizes a plastic squirty bottle of tomato ketchup. He's about to inject the red stuff into my pie like a builder squirting insulation
  • * 2011 , Mark Howell, Scallywags (page 12)
    • The woman was busy making the hot chocolates; she was now bent down retrieving the squirty cream from a small box fridge nestled underneath the counter.

    squinty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Afflicted with a squint
  • sidelong