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Squirming

Squirm \Squirm\ (skw[~e]rm), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squirmed (skw[~e]rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Squirming.] [Cf. Swarm to climb a tree.] To twist about briskly with contortions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.

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squirming

n. The motion of something that squirms. vb. (present participle of squirm English)

WordNet
squirming

adj. having a twisting or snake-like or worm-like motion; "squirming boys"; "wiggly worms"; "writhing snakes" [syn: twisting, wiggling, wiggly, wriggling, wriggly, writhing]

Usage examples of "squirming".

She has had, of course, other sorts of slave responses and behaviors before this, such things as squirmings, strugglings, cringings, pain and fear, and behavioral presentations and pleadings, making herself pretty and holding herself in certain ways, presenting herself as a helpless, desirable female, trying to provoke the interest of attractive men.

Saw a garter snake, the first in a long time, and observed its beautiful squirmings and darlings from a prudent distance.

It has no meaning until it is invested with one, and neither did any of the colors, sounds, pressures, chills, pulls, twitches, itches, squirmings, burnings, yearnings—the billion quantum units of impression that were assaulting naked, tender me.