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Definition of Squirmy
1. wriggly [adj SQUIRMIER, SQUIRMIEST] - See also: wriggly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squirmy
Literary usage of Squirmy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1872)
"I shall never know which of us got off that bed the quickest; — squirmy made for
a log-hole and I for my sabre. Unluckily for the snake I grasped the weapon ..."
2. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"squirmy. Having a squirming shape; crooked. It coils loosely and waveringly about
the ground, as a huge snake might unfold it; in every respect, a squirmy ..."
3. Pictured Knowledge; Visual Instruction Practically Applied for the Home and by Eleanor Atkinson (1916)
"Put the branch in a jar of water, through a hole in a paper cap, or the squirmy
babies may be drowned. Under a microscope you would find butterfly and moth ..."
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