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squirrelly, a.|ˈskwɪrəlɪ|
Also squirrely.
[f. squirrel n. + -y1.]
1. Resembling or characteristic of a squirrel.
1925D. H. Lawrence Reflections on Death of Porcupine 204 The chipmunks..were little squirrely things with stripes down their backs. 1965H. Gold Man who was not with It ii. 11, I saw that squirrelly look which says: ‘Win it all back with the rent money.’
2. Inclined to rush this way and that, unpredictable. Of a person: demented, crazy; jumpy, nervy.
1928O. Elton Survey Eng. Lit. (1730–80) I. iii. 70 Lady Sarah Lennox's letters are ‘at first squirrelly and girlish’. 1934M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang 198 Squirrely, abnormal; queer; crazy. 1960Spectator 25 Mar. 438 Her description of contestants going ‘squirrelly’ (demented) with exhaustion..makes an unpleasant sociological document. 1970K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly (1971) x. 117, I got all squirrelly after you left. I just couldn't sit around doing nothing. 1977J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) viii. 108 Squirrelly dog, Pattie Mae... Squirrelly! Just like his goddamn owner. I never shoulda said I'd bring him today. |