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squickage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From squick + -age.

Meanings

  1. (slang, uncountable) The condition of being squicked by something; squeamish revulsion.
    • I could handle just about anything except childbirth without squickage, but there was something so biologically nasty about childbirth, just couldn't handle it at all. 2009 April 3, elizabeth, “Re: Painful Water Birth”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
    • Their reaction to hearing about alternative sexual practices in the abstract is most often amusement, sometimes squickage, rarely moral outrage. 2004 January 24, Nena, “Re: Why monogamy?”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm.femdom (Usenet):
    • You want me to do *WHAT*?? Squickage! That's too sick for me. 1993 December 10, Alan Smith, “Re: screw compressor clamp”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):
  2. (slang, uncountable) Something that squicks.
    • It's that perfect fairy tale x-fic that everyone secretly loves. That, and no squickage whatsoever, which is why I dislike most anachronistic fics. :) 2002 April 12, XL [username], “REC: Mary Church”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):