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asquint

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a⋅squint

  [uh-skwint]
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–adverb, adjective
with an oblique glance or squint; askance; slyly; dubiously.
Origin:
1200–50; ME, equiv. to a- a- 1 + squint, of uncert. orig.
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a·squint   (ə-skwĭnt')   
adv.   & adj.
With a sidelong glance.

[Middle English : a-, on; see a-2 + -squint; akin to skwyn (in of skwyn, obliquely).]
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