Citations:squink

English citations of squink

1633, William Lithgow, “Scotlands Welcome to her Native Sonne, and Soveraigne LORD, King Charles”, in The poetical remains of William Lithgow, the Scottish traveller, page 152:
O! sad song!
When equity is curbd; and squink respect
Involues the trueth into a base neglect;

1640, William Lithgow, “The gushing Teares of godlie sorrow”, in The poetical remains of William Lithgow, the Scottish traveller:
David resolv'd, on Sions lower flat,
To build a Temple, for the living Lord:
A daughter cloure, joynd with Jehosophat,
Benorthd, with Moriahs, squink devalling bord:

2005, Laurie Notaro, We thought you would be prettier: true tales of the dorkiest girl alive, page 188:
Okay, I'm going to pick up my car keys very carefully so as to not wake the squinky eye in case it's resting, and I'm going to go out the door and get into the car. You know, though, it's weird, once the squink goes away, you kind of realize that in a way, you sort of liked it. And sort of miss it..

2008, Christopher W. Marsh, A year in the province: being the memoir of Jesús Sánchez Ventura, page 330:
She also claimed to have seen a hare only a few feet away, and when I asked why it had not run away, she said, “We were behind the wall, and we got a squink through a vent.”

- 2019, M. Kathryn Shields, Sunny Spillane, Creative Collaboration in Art Practice, Research, and Pedagogy, page 358:
  As the Collaboration evolves, when you are truly collaborating, it also doesn't matter a squink who did what.
- 2015, Julie Halpern, Maternity Leave, page 188:
  Zach grunts, and I'm taken aback since I'm always the one who demands we turn off the monitor when I want to pretend for one squink of a second that I'm not at a tiny human's beck and call.

- 2009, Kara Munn, Focus on Literature Ages 8-10, page 36:
  They bake squid pies and they make squink from squid ink.
- 2015, Nigella Lawson, Nigella's Kitchen:
  Squink risotto. {{[recipe follows]}}

- 2021, Nate Piekos, The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering, page 100:
  You can now add your standard balloon stroke to the squink.

c. 1912, Carolyn Wells, Marjorie at Seacote, page 40:
"Do it again," he said. "How do you ever squink up your nose like that! Bet you can't do it three times in succession."
1944, Jack Jones, The Man David: An Imaginative Presentation, Based on Fact, of the Life of David LLoyd George from 1880 to 1914, page 99:
“The right hon. gentleman” squinked his eyes until his monocole dented cheek and forehead bones.
[1977, John Farris, All heads turn when the hunt goes by, page 112:
Nellie turned and looked at him with a facial twitch that was a cross between a squint and a wink: Call it a squink.]
1995, Jonathan Evan Maslow, Torrid zone: seven voices from the Gulf Coast, page 253:
“Morning!” She did her best squink. Squinking is something southern women do. It’s a combination of making a high-pitched squeaking sound and winking with both eyes at the same time. It’s how you know a southern woman is trying to be friendly, like their mamas teach them.
2016, Nancy Bailey Miller, “Outside the Tackle Shop”, in Tacking Lessons, page 23:
Small coins jingle from his pocket
to her furrowed hand.
She squinks her toothless smile,
then hobbles down the cobbled street.