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- noun Alternative form of
squizz .
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Examples
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We had our hot assistant take a squiz at what you wrote, *
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Nice to have a squiz at your site and your thoughts.
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My advice would be to hunt it down in a bookstore and take a squiz through it.
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But fancy letting all those people have a good squiz at your cellulite - eww.
Naked Yoga MJ 2006
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In all the recipes I have had a squiz at, there is no marked ratio of flour to butter that distinguishes them, both can call on rising agents, nuts, and fruit.
Fairy Cakes with Cream Cheese Icing Shaun 2007
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In all the recipes I have had a squiz at, there is no marked ratio of flour to butter that distinguishes them, both can call on rising agents, nuts, and fruit.
Archive 2007-05-01 Shaun 2007
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Unless keenly interested in what you and Ross have to say, I fear that most visitors will have a squiz, find a complex interlayering of argument, rebuttal etc and leave.
Hits « Climate Audit 2005
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However, Good on her to finally get out of the house, learn Engligh and get a job! squiz, how is the woman a "burden on the state" when she's educated herself, is employed and pays taxes?
Evening Standard - Home David Cohen 2011
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However, Good on her to finally get out of the house, learn Engligh and get a job! squiz, how is the woman a "burden on the state" when she's educated herself, is employed and pays taxes?
Evening Standard - Home David Cohen 2011
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Ingmar Bergman lived on Fårö and is now buried in this graveyard, so we got to have a squiz at his grave.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
frindley commented on the word squiz
Australian and New Zealand slang - a quick look, as in:
"I won't have time to proofread it, but I'll take a squiz at it now and see if there's anything glaring."
Shorter OED says it's most likely a blend of quiz and squint. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English agrees with the Antipodean connection but gives "British dialect (Devon)" as the source.
March 30, 2008