squinchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /skwɪnt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -ɪntʃ

語源 1

Alteration of earlier scunch (“back part of the side of an opening”), short for scuncheon.

名詞

squinch (plural squinches)

1. (architecture) A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure, as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room.

語源 2

Uncertain. Probably blend of squint +‎ pinch. Compare squink-eyed, variant of squint-eyed, so perhaps it is at least partly an altered form of squint.

動詞

squinch (third-person singular simple present squinches, present participle squinching, simple past and past participle squinched)

1. (transitive) To scrunch up (one's face, etc.).
   • 2008 March 15, Gail Collins, “George Speaks, Badly”, in New York Times‎:

     The president squinched his face and bit his lip and seemed too antsy to stand still.

派生語

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参考

• squinch owl (possibly etymologically related)