Squinch [noun]

Mr. Turner, Mr. Squinch and Mr. Fester looked at one another in turn.

“Suppose that we say twenty-five hundred,” resumed Mr. Squinch.

Business was business with Mr. Squinch, and social calls should be discouraged.

To him Mr. Squinch made his first observation, and it was almost with a snarl.

After thet, hit got so't every time they heerd a squinch owl holler, they'd begin a-shootin' into the bresh with their rifle guns.

So they blinks an' winks like a passel of squinch owls, but never onbuckles in no argyooment.

A squinch thrown across an arcade may be conjectured for strength were it not confuted by two buttresses on the outside.

The old fellow is very superstitious and firmly believes that the "squinch" owl's note is a "sho sign o' death."

Mr. Squinch pounded his long finger-tips together for some time while he pondered the matter.

“I take it, then, that the paid-in capitalization of the company is not represented in actual cash,” said Mr. Squinch.