Citations:squirmage

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English citations of squirmage

Noun: "the act of squirming"[edit]

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  • 1981Andrew Fluegelman, More New Games! …and Playful Ideas from the New Games Foundation, Dolphin Books (1981), →ISBN, page 115:
    If you're too much a proletarian or a populist at heart and can't get enthusiastic over the fantasy of this game, why not think of the monarchas being of the orange-and-black butterfly variety? Trying to metamorphize a squirmage of caterpillars.
  • 2007 — Harry Sanderford, "A Bedtime Story", A Prairie Home Companion, 9 May 2007:
    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 — Ranylt Richildis, "Say It, Don't Spray It", Pajiba, 21 July 2007:
    As it turns out, neither the musical nor Travolta was onerous enough to kill me outright [] In fact, there was only minimal seat-squirmage on my part, and I suspect fans of happy-happy-fun-world Broadway productions will be sufficiently suffonsified by Hairspray.
  • 2009 — Candace Young, "The Bachelorette: Rocky Mountain Romance!", Reality TV Magazine, 22 June 2009:
    Only on The Bachelorette can a chick grill a guy on whether he’s ready to settle down and have kids, and Jillian does exactly that to Robby, who, at twenty-five years of age, and currently in-between jobs, handles the questioning with only a few drops of sweat and minimal squirmage.

Noun: "the condition or quality of causing a state of discomfort, particularly disgust, fear, or embarrassment"[edit]

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  • c. 2005 — Angus Wolfe Murray, Waiting… review, Eye for Film:
    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.
  • 2007David Feherty, "A Whole New Skins Game?", Golf Magazine, 12 January 2007:
    We've had a couple of reality shows in golf, but so far none of them has had enough of the old squirmage factor to fit into the Idol category.
  • 2008 — David Sobczynski, "DVD Reviews for 3/7: He's Coming To Get You, Barbara!", eFilmCritic.com, 3 March 2008:
    [] if you can ignore the increasingly ludicrous plot developments, the film [Awake] has a few reasonably tense moments of medical squirmage that might have played better as an episode of "Tales From the Crypt" or "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" []