squirm
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Broderick, the show’s photographer and tech, quips, “Sarah Squirm did our first show, so basically our show is a fast track to ‘SNL.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022
Sarah Squirm, who is starting off her second season on “SNL,” kicked off the Big One’s inaugural show in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022
Squirm factor: Though it’s funny throughout, this episode does involve some deeply uncomfortable scenes.
From The Verge • Jan. 2, 2018
Squirm, Glummie's caterpillar brother, had been heard to say that it was so sweet about those clover blossoms that he could scarcely crawl by them; it made him faint.
From The Cheerful Cricket and Others by Marks, Jeannette Augustus
Squirm, skwirm, v.i. to wriggle or writhe, to climb by wriggling up: to escape with any awkward evasion or lie.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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