Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) to look at.

[1843		R.S. Surtees Handley Cross (1854) 416: Time for ballet—squizzin’ glass—gauze petticoats].
1915		F. Garrett diary 29 May 🌐 The men [...] don’t think it worth coming out of the dugouts to squiz at them [i.e. airplanes].
1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 71: Squiz, to look at, inspect.
1944		J.F. Dettman ‘’Is Country’s Slave’ Here was Glory 48: They formed us on th’ tarmac th’ first morning ’fore we flew, / An’ th’ C.O. squizzed us over an’ ’e murmured ‘Tasty crew’.
1950		(con. 1936–46) K.S. Prichard Winged Seeds (1984) 331: There he was lyin’ in bed – an old bag of bones: just his eyes squizzin’ about as sly and lively as ever.
1960		‘Nino Culotta’ Cop This Lot 92: No good you squizzin’ at me like a crow up a holler log, mate.
1966		D. Niland Pairs and Loners 85: Take a little walk alongside the rattler and squiz the tickets on each truck.