squirmy

CEFRB2

/ˈskwɝmi/

adjective

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Moving with small twisting movements.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    That squirms, writhes or wriggles.

Examples

  • Squirmy means tending to twist and turn the body like a worm.

  • The hungry baby was feeling very squirmy during the meal.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
2
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

More examples

In context

  • The teacher tried to calm the squirmy children during storytime.

  • Over a tense 83 minutes, Sweeney and Satter present a complex and contradictory image of Reality Winner: not as a lefty firebrand or a noble whistle-blower, but as a squirmy, self-deprecating over-achiever[…]

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The baby was very blank and kept wiggling and twisting away from my hands.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

adjective

From squirm + -y.