squirm

Senso (Inglese)

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.

wriggle

writhe

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

motion squirm

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Pronunciato come (IPA)

/skwɜːm/

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.

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