Crossword clues for squirm
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A twisting, snakelike movement of the body. vb. 1 To twist one’s body with snakelike motions. 2 To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment. 3 To evade (a question, an interviewer etc). 4 (context figuratively English) To move in a slow, irregular motion.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Squirm is a 1976 American natural horror film directed by Jeff Lieberman, and starring Don Scardino and Patricia Pearcy. The plot follows a small Georgia town that becomes inundated with flesh-burrowing worms. It features early makeup work from Oscar-winning makeup artist Rick Baker. The film was shot over the course of 24 days in Port Wentworth, Georgia.
Squirm were a New Zealand alternative rock group based in Christchurch, New Zealand. The band played from 1991 to 1997 and released two albums and one 6-track EP.
Usage examples of "squirm".
Zelzony squirm in her chair, waking again her ambivalence toward this amalgam of metal and personality.
He felt as if his own soul had been reduced into something piteousa bedraggled, sweat-smeared rat, trapped within a rock-fall, twisting and squirming through cracks in a desperate search for a place where the pressurethe vast, shifting weightrelented.
Their blackened bellies had bloated like ripe melons, and small creatures could be seen squirming under their stretched skins.
The Red Hots bring you out in red blotches and dots, squirming around on your red-hot ass, itching to pop, and you can top it with a Red Pop.
A red silk curtain scented with rose oil, musk, sperm, rectal mucus, ozone and raw meat goes up on a hospital ward of boys covered with phosphorescent red blotches that glow and steam the fever smell off them, shuddering, squirming, shivering, eyes burning, legs up, teeth bare, whispering the ancient evil fever words.
She watched as a sea slug squirmed from that nasal cavity and onto the bootee, leaving a trail of slime behind it.
Its trunk, branchless for sixty feet, was too thick to climb, but he found a younger and slimmer tree, up which he could squirm and from its upper branches traverse to the other.
He wore a filthy burnous, and, with a shriek, he plunged his hand into its hood and threw some squirming things upon the floor.
A bundle that squirmed, cooed, then let out a resounding burp more suitable to a burly ale master.
Rurik cocked his head to the side, and his mischievous eyes skimmed over her body with a boldness that made Maire squirm uncomfortably on her already shaky perch.
And I moved to go over to him, to take his arm and make him listen while I told him about what was happening to my mum in the hospital down the road that morning, to tell him about the surgery, and to use words like mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, lymphoedema, until I saw him squirm with shame at his cowardice.
Radescu relived a dual memory, himself in a crib looking at his Uncle Grigor-and the infant Molt squirming against him for sustenance and affection.
After the porridge, his mother bundled him into the bathroom again and washed behind his ears, which made him squirm, and then she put him into his own gray suit, with his own red bow tie.
Aetayn let nun stay in that position for a long, long moment Reflet squirmed.
She was more concerned that she had no dark glasses to hide her hideous scars and that the thick rope of hair was a mess from squirming restlessly.