Squitted vs Squinted - What's the difference?
squitted | squinted |
(squit)
(derogatory, informal, countable) A person of low status.
* 1989 , Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth (episode "Goodbyeee"):
(Norfolk, uncountable) Nonsense; amusing stories.
(internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.
* 1994 , "Bernhard Lorenz", ChanOp for Irc Opers'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc )
* 1996 , "Jesse", A warning to all irc users'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc )
(squint)
(lb) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
(lb) To look or glance sideways.
(lb) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
(lb) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
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An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
(senseid)A quick or sideways glance.
A short look.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
A hagioscope.
(radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
As verbs the difference between squitted and squinted
is that squitted is past tense of squit while squinted is past tense of squint.squitted
English
Verb
(head)squit
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Etymology 1
Noun
- Not a favourite son, of course — Lord, no! — more a sort of illegitimate backstairs sort of sprog, you know: a sort of spotty squit that nobody really likes.
Etymology 2
Short for server quit .Verb
- these problems solved themselves atfter(SIC) some 10 minutes or so, without an ircop interferring(SIC) into channel affairs by squitting his/her server to gain chanop status.
- Today, I was awakened by a call from one of my IRC ops, telling me that my net had been 'taken over'. An ircop had squitted all the servers, and had a script that kept them disconnected from the net.
Anagrams
*squinted
English
Verb
(head)squint
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Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint .
- --And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
- --Give us a squint at her, says I.