"squint" = "narrow one's eyes" not in OED?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Incredible but true.

JL

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>wrote:

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> The term "squinting modifier" (what I'd call a forward/backward attachment
> ambiguity) never made sense to me until I learned that "squint" can mean
> "be
> cross-eyed or wall-eyed, seem to look in two directions":
> http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/squint/
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> More surprising is that my definition, "narrow one's eyes", isn't in the
> OED
> at all, as far as I can tell.
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