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squirmy

[ skwur-mee ]

adjective

, squirm·i·er, squirm·i·est.
  1. characterized by squirming.


squirmy

/ ˈskwɜːmɪ /

adjective

  1. moving with a wriggling motion
  2. making one squirm
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • squirmi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of squirmy1

First recorded in 1830–40; squirm + -y 1
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Example Sentences

Now, scientists are using that allure to build a squirmy new tool to detect cancer.

The mountain bikes of yesterday were not without their quirks—think narrow bars and squirmy knobbies—but some of them are just a cockpit swap and some René Herse tires away from all-day mixed-terrain bliss.

Like a chain, folding locks are squirmy under a cutting device.

Me, Bucky Greenfield—to go down and out on account of a bug—a little squirmy bug!

There were forty scholars: squirmy, grimy little things that I found it hard to tell apart at first.

Squirmy searched his half-dressed congregation witheringly over the tops of his spectacles.

She owned up to the fact that they made her “squirmy” and she hated to see live bait on a hook.

I never c'ud abear castor-ile, jest the mention of it makes me squirmy.

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