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squirmage en · NOUN

Etymology

From squirm + -age.

Meanings

  1. (slang, uncountable) 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, uncountable) 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