squirm

squirm

englanti

1. kiemurrella, vääntelehtiä

Synonyymisanakirja: squirm

squirm

1. liikehdintä, liikahdus, liike, liikkuvuus, heiluttaminen, kiemurtelu, siirtää, viedä, kiemurrella, madella, vääntelehtiä, vääntää.

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Käännökset: squirm

squirm suomeksi

vääntelehtiä, kiemurrella, kiemurtelu

• kiemurrella, vääntelehtiä

• kiemurrella

squirm englanniksi

• To twist one’s body with snakelike motions.

The prisoner managed to squirm out of the straitjacket.

• 1918, (w), w:The Land That Time Forgot (novel)|The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

...around us there had sprung up a perfect bedlam of screams and hisses and a seething caldron of hideous reptiles, devoid of fear and filled only with hunger and with rage. They clambered, squirmed and wriggled to the deck, forcing us steadily backward, though we emptied our pistols into them.

• 1922, (w), (w) Chapter 1

"Throw it away, dear, do," she said, as they got into the road; but Jacob squirmed away from her...

• To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.

I recounted the embarrassing story in detail just to watch him squirm.

• 2010, w:Jeph Jacques|Jeph Jacques, http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1686 Questionable Content 1686: Twist in the Wind

MARIGOLD: Should I tell them I know?

DORA: Nah, let ’em squirm. Let’s go get some pie.

• To evade (a question, an interviewer etc).

• puhekieltä To move in a slow, irregular motion.

• {{quote-journal

• A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.

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