squirmn.

Brit.

/skwəːm/, U.S.

/skwərm/

Etymology: < squirm v.

1. A squirming or writhing movement; a wriggle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun] > wriggling > an act of

wriggle1709

scriggle1832

squirm1839

1839 Havana (New York) Republican 21 Aug. [The whale gave] a squirm, and roll'd over and over.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 648 Squirm, a wriggling motion like that of an eel.

1883 S. Baring-Gould John Herring II. xxiii. 39 The squirms and languishings of the redeyelashed heiress..were grotesque.

2. Nautical. A twist in a rope.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > condition of being twisted spirally > a spiral twist > specifically in a rope

squirm1867

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 648 Squirm, a twist in a rope.

3. A twisting or curving form of decoration characteristic of art nouveau; hence colloquial (with the) the style itself.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > art nouveau

Liberty style1890

secession1896

nouveau art1902

New Art1903

art nouveau1908

squirm1909

Jugendstil1928

Modernismo1960

Sezessionstil1970

Modernisme1986

1909 J. Thorp Æsthetic Conversion (Heal & Son) 10 The art nouveau, with its meandering tulips and inconsequent squirms and dots.

1972 F. MacCarthy All Things Bright & Beautiful ii. 46 Art nouveau was called ‘the squirm’. When ‘the squirm’ arrived in Britain..Lewis F. Day and Walter Crane were outraged.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

squirmv.

Brit.

/skwəːm/, U.S.

/skwərm/

Etymology: apparently imitative.

1. intransitive. To wriggle or writhe:

a. Of reptiles, etc. Chiefly U.S. and dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > writhe or twist [verb (intransitive)] > wriggle

wiggle?c1225

wriggle1495

wraggle?a1513

wrabble1513

sprinklea1522

wrig1599

squirm1691

scrigglea1701

wraxle1746

squiggle1816

wiggle-waggle1827

swiggle1837

scurrifunge1894

1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 115 To Squirm, to move very nimbly about, after the manner of an Eel. It is spoken of an Eel.

1743 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. 47 This harmless snake frequents the branches of Trees and very nimbly squirms among the leaves.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Squirm..signifies to move as a worm.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xx. 230 He should press his foot hard down upon the old serpent,..feeling him squirm mightily.

1885 H. C. McCook Tenants Old Farm 389 I have seen specimens..hanging by a thread and squirming, bending and snapping their bodies in the oddest ways.

figurative.1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 May 4/1 If you want definite ideas [about vermin] that will squirm in your brain for a lifetime.

b. Of persons.

ΚΠ

1756 J. Clubbe Physiognomy in Misc. Tracts (1770) I. 24 Let them squirm about as much as they will, and struggle to support their heads from sinking.

1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table vi. 177 They find out the red-handed..undergraduate of bucolic antecedents, as he squirms in his corner.

1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie I. x. 154 At length he could..bear his thirst no longer, and, squirming round on the floor, crept softly towards the other end of the loft.

1890 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Jan. 9 These poor little mortals who have not even the capacity..to do anything but squirm and squall.

c. Of things.

ΚΠ

1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 25/1 If there are a few trees near, and the long leafless twigs of one of them twitters and squirms against the window panes.

1888 E. W. Benson Diary 11 Sept. in A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson (1899) II. 220 Leighton said he found it vain to try to remember the turns and angles at which these branches squirmed about.

1905 C. I. Dodd Vagrant Englishwoman 78 The sausage squirmed, spluttered, and sang as the lively flames leapt around it.

a. To move, proceed, or go with a wriggling or writhing motion. Const. with adverbs and prepositions, as along, forward, in, out, round, to, up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > with sinuous or writhing motion

writhec1275

wriggle1602

squirm1759

worm1802

eel1922

1759 Compl. Let.-writer (ed. 6) 224 Mrs. Langford..puddled herself into a minuet, and squirmed round and round the room.

1882 Cent. Mag. July 348/1 If you insist upon going to the end.., you must squirm along on all fours.

1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 186/2 The shark squirmed out, thrashing about and snapping its jaws.

1891 C. L. Morgan Animal Sketches 235 Wriggling and squirming up a dark green vertical wall.

b. transitive. To twist or contort (something) into a new form. rare.

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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > in form or appearance

makec1175

transfigurea1340

transformc1340

overcasta1387

translatea1393

shapec1400

resolvea1450

transfigurate?a1475

fashion1528

converta1530

to bless into1534

redact1554

trans-shape1575

deduce1587

star1606

deducta1627

Pythagorize1631

to run into ——a1640

transpeciate1643

transmogrify1656

throw1824

transfeature1875

squirm1876

recontour1913

1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxi. 171 A brain-racking effort was made to squirm it into some aspect or other that the moral and religious mind could contemplate with edification.

3. figurative. To be painfully affected or sharply touched by something; to writhe under reproof, sarcasm, or the like.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > suffer mental pain [verb (intransitive)] > manifest suffering

to swallow one's spittlec1400

flincha1677

squirm1804

1804 [see squirming n. and adj. at Derivatives].

1849 Knickerbocker Jan. 64 The gambler ‘squirmed’ under the gospel truth; yet..he contrived to sit the sermon out.

1894 G. M. Fenn In Alpine Valley I. 36 I'll write my Lord..such a letter as shall make him squirm.

4. transitive. With out: To utter with a squirm.

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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > with a movement

writhe1859

squirm1889

move1938

1889 A. C. Gunter That Frenchman! xxi. 286 Here Zamaroff squirms out: ‘Do I look like a man who would kill anything?’

Derivatives

squirming n. and adj.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun] > action of suffering

sufferingc1340

tholinga1400

sufferance1426

pain taking1528

sustaining1594

underbearing1597

perpessiona1603

undergoing1612

enduring1659

squirming1804

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] > wriggling

wraggling?a1513

wriggling1567

friggling1621

wrinkling1653

squirming1860

wrigglesome1891

1804 Balance 25 Dec. 410 Some of the late victorious party have discovered squirmings of resentment.

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table v. 129 A terrible squirming and scattering of the..population.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xv. 177 What a spirit is conveyed into the ugliness of this strong, writhing, squirming dragon, under the Archangel's foot!

1865 Cornhill Mag. July 46 When a great nation..is stirred and shaken..we all know what squirming, slimy things run forth helter-skelter.

1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 223/2 A squirming alligator some three feet long.

1887 Spectator 15 Oct. 1378 The British will, after many delays and much squirming, ultimately pay the money.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	squirm
释义	squirmn. Brit. /skwəːm/, U.S. /skwərm/ Etymology: < squirm v. 1. A squirming or writhing movement; a wriggle. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun] > wriggling > an act of wriggle1709 scriggle1832 squirm1839 1839 Havana (New York) Republican 21 Aug. [The whale gave] a squirm, and roll'd over and over. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 648 Squirm, a wriggling motion like that of an eel. 1883 S. Baring-Gould John Herring II. xxiii. 39 The squirms and languishings of the redeyelashed heiress..were grotesque. 2. Nautical. A twist in a rope. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun] > condition of being twisted spirally > a spiral twist > specifically in a rope squirm1867 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 648 Squirm, a twist in a rope. 3. A twisting or curving form of decoration characteristic of art nouveau; hence colloquial (with the) the style itself. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > art nouveau Liberty style1890 secession1896 nouveau art1902 New Art1903 art nouveau1908 squirm1909 Jugendstil1928 Modernismo1960 Sezessionstil1970 Modernisme1986 1909 J. Thorp Æsthetic Conversion (Heal & Son) 10 The art nouveau, with its meandering tulips and inconsequent squirms and dots. 1972 F. MacCarthy All Things Bright & Beautiful ii. 46 Art nouveau was called ‘the squirm’. When ‘the squirm’ arrived in Britain..Lewis F. Day and Walter Crane were outraged. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). squirmv. Brit. /skwəːm/, U.S. /skwərm/ Etymology: apparently imitative. 1. intransitive. To wriggle or writhe: a. Of reptiles, etc. Chiefly U.S. and dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > writhe or twist [verb (intransitive)] > wriggle wiggle?c1225 wriggle1495 wraggle?a1513 wrabble1513 sprinklea1522 wrig1599 squirm1691 scrigglea1701 wraxle1746 squiggle1816 wiggle-waggle1827 swiggle1837 scurrifunge1894 1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 115 To Squirm, to move very nimbly about, after the manner of an Eel. It is spoken of an Eel. 1743 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. 47 This harmless snake frequents the branches of Trees and very nimbly squirms among the leaves. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Squirm..signifies to move as a worm. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xx. 230 He should press his foot hard down upon the old serpent,..feeling him squirm mightily. 1885 H. C. McCook Tenants Old Farm 389 I have seen specimens..hanging by a thread and squirming, bending and snapping their bodies in the oddest ways. figurative.1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 May 4/1 If you want definite ideas [about vermin] that will squirm in your brain for a lifetime. b. Of persons. ΚΠ 1756 J. Clubbe Physiognomy in Misc. Tracts (1770) I. 24 Let them squirm about as much as they will, and struggle to support their heads from sinking. 1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table vi. 177 They find out the red-handed..undergraduate of bucolic antecedents, as he squirms in his corner. 1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie I. x. 154 At length he could..bear his thirst no longer, and, squirming round on the floor, crept softly towards the other end of the loft. 1890 T. H. Huxley in 19th Cent. Jan. 9 These poor little mortals who have not even the capacity..to do anything but squirm and squall. c. Of things. ΚΠ 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 25/1 If there are a few trees near, and the long leafless twigs of one of them twitters and squirms against the window panes. 1888 E. W. Benson Diary 11 Sept. in A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson (1899) II. 220 Leighton said he found it vain to try to remember the turns and angles at which these branches squirmed about. 1905 C. I. Dodd Vagrant Englishwoman 78 The sausage squirmed, spluttered, and sang as the lively flames leapt around it. 2. a. To move, proceed, or go with a wriggling or writhing motion. Const. with adverbs and prepositions, as along, forward, in, out, round, to, up. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > with sinuous or writhing motion writhec1275 wriggle1602 squirm1759 worm1802 eel1922 1759 Compl. Let.-writer (ed. 6) 224 Mrs. Langford..puddled herself into a minuet, and squirmed round and round the room. 1882 Cent. Mag. July 348/1 If you insist upon going to the end.., you must squirm along on all fours. 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 186/2 The shark squirmed out, thrashing about and snapping its jaws. 1891 C. L. Morgan Animal Sketches 235 Wriggling and squirming up a dark green vertical wall. b. transitive. To twist or contort (something) into a new form. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > in form or appearance makec1175 transfigurea1340 transformc1340 overcasta1387 translatea1393 shapec1400 resolvea1450 transfigurate?a1475 fashion1528 converta1530 to bless into1534 redact1554 trans-shape1575 deduce1587 star1606 deducta1627 Pythagorize1631 to run into ——a1640 transpeciate1643 transmogrify1656 throw1824 transfeature1875 squirm1876 recontour1913 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xxi. 171 A brain-racking effort was made to squirm it into some aspect or other that the moral and religious mind could contemplate with edification. 3. figurative. To be painfully affected or sharply touched by something; to writhe under reproof, sarcasm, or the like. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > suffer mental pain [verb (intransitive)] > manifest suffering to swallow one's spittlec1400 flincha1677 squirm1804 1804 [see squirming n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1849 Knickerbocker Jan. 64 The gambler ‘squirmed’ under the gospel truth; yet..he contrived to sit the sermon out. 1894 G. M. Fenn In Alpine Valley I. 36 I'll write my Lord..such a letter as shall make him squirm. 4. transitive. With out: To utter with a squirm. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > with a movement writhe1859 squirm1889 move1938 1889 A. C. Gunter That Frenchman! xxi. 286 Here Zamaroff squirms out: ‘Do I look like a man who would kill anything?’ Derivatives squirming n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun] > action of suffering sufferingc1340 tholinga1400 sufferance1426 pain taking1528 sustaining1594 underbearing1597 perpessiona1603 undergoing1612 enduring1659 squirming1804 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [adjective] > wriggling wraggling?a1513 wriggling1567 friggling1621 wrinkling1653 squirming1860 wrigglesome1891 1804 Balance 25 Dec. 410 Some of the late victorious party have discovered squirmings of resentment. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table v. 129 A terrible squirming and scattering of the..population. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xv. 177 What a spirit is conveyed into the ugliness of this strong, writhing, squirming dragon, under the Archangel's foot! 1865 Cornhill Mag. July 46 When a great nation..is stirred and shaken..we all know what squirming, slimy things run forth helter-skelter. 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 223/2 A squirming alligator some three feet long. 1887 Spectator 15 Oct. 1378 The British will, after many delays and much squirming, ultimately pay the money. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1839v.1691
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