squirm

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. To twist one's body with snakelike motions.
2. To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
3. To evade a question, an interviewer etc.

Noun

A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.

Conceptos

retorcer

retorcerse

serpentear

torcer

trenzar

serpear

Sinónimos

wriggle

writhe

wiggle

twist

struggle

worm

🪱

wrestle

fidget

peristalsis

twitch

twist and turn

slither

crawl

twiddle

gyrate

huddle

jiggle

joggle

move

roll around

shake

shimmy

show off

snake

🐍

spiral

stew

🍲

toss

turn

twine

wag

waggle

wind

wobble

worry

wreathe

thread one’s way

crawl like a worm

move about restlessly

move restlessly

feel uncomfortalbe

nestle up

circumvolute

buzz about

twist about

creeping motion

buzz around

creeping motion squirm

agitated

motion squirm

agonize

churn

concern

contort

convulse

corkscrew

creep

creeping

curl

disquiet

fiddle

flounder

flutter

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/skwɜːm/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con escocés: squimmer

Cognado con noruego: kverva

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: hverfa

In summary

First recorded 1690's, originally used of eels; cognate with Scots squimmer (“to wriggle, squirm”). Of uncertain origin. Compare dialectal quirm, whirm (“to disappear quickly, vanish suddenly and mysteriously”), Norwegian kverva (“to turn around, take away, remove, shrink”), from Old Norse hverfa (“to turn, vanish”). Alternatively, perhaps imitative or related to worm (in the sense of writhing movement) or swarm.