Squintifeʹgo.

Squinting.

“The squintifego maid


Of Isis awe thee, lest the gods for sin

Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.”


Dryden: Fifth Satire of Juvenal.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Spy (of Vanity Fair)
Spy Wednesday
Squab Pie
Squad
Squalls
Square
Square the Circle
Squash
Squib (A)
Squint-eyed [Guercino]
Squintifego
Squire of Dames
Stabat Mater
Stable-door
Stable Keys
Staff
Staff of Life (The)
Stafford
Stafford Law
Stag
Stags