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

[Jonathan Lighter]

But as you know, there's a big backlog of stuff at Oxford.

JL

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:

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> The same amazing situation discussed in an ADS publication a few years
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> (p. 282)
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