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squirmage

squirmage noun: the act of squirming.

Noun

squirmage (uncountable)

  1. (slang) The act of squirming.
    • In bed, Lauren has never been able to control her lateral squirmage. She is the needle on a compass and Spencer is due North.2007 May 9, Harry Sanderford, “A Bedtime Story”, in A Prairie Home Companion
  2. (broadly, slang) The condition or quality of causing a state of discomfort, particularly disgust, fear, or embarrassment.
    • Pants down gags are as loud and lively as fart jokes, but willy waving in a restaurant kitchen is a whole new area of squirmage, hitherto unexplored.c. 2005, Angus Wolfe Murray, Waiting… review, Eye for Film

Origin of squirmage

From squirm + -age.

Questions about squirmage

What does squirmage mean?
Squirmage means the act of squirming.
What part of speech is squirmage?
Squirmage is a noun.

Words near squirmage in the dictionary

  1. squiring
  2. squirish
  3. squirl
  4. squirls
  5. squirm
  6. squirmage
  7. squirmed
  8. squirmer
  9. squirmers
  10. squirmier
  11. squirmiest

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