a squirmとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

a- +‎ squirm

形容詞

asquirm (comparative more asquirm, superlative most asquirm)

1. Squirming.
   • 1866, William Dean Howells, Venetian Life, New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867, Chapter 18, p. 300,^[1]

     But a fish-market, even at Rialto […] is only a fish-market after all: it is wet and slimy under foot, and the innumerable gigantic eels, writhing everywhere, set the soul asquirm, and soon-sated curiosity slides willingly away.

   • 1972, John Irving, The Water-Method Man, New York: Pocket Books, 1978, Chapter 32, p. 308,^[2]

     […] he sat with his trousers rolled up to the knees and his blue-white city toes asquirm in the cleanest muck he’d ever felt.

   • 1990, Arthur Mayse, Handliner’s Island, Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, Chapter 12, p. 125,^[3]

     From where they sat on the rowing thwarts, they made blind passes with their herring rakes, bringing them up with silver asquirm on each needle-sharp tooth.

   • 2008, Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels, New York: Random House, 2011, Chapter 3, p. 66,^[4]

     […] this child, unlike the first, was easily stirred to rages. The slightest discomfort set her asquirm […]

2. Covered or filled (with something squirming).
   • 1892, Thomas De Witt Talmage, From the Pyramids to the Acropolis, Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company, Chapter 6, p. 161,^[5]

     an aquarium all asquirm with trout and gold fish

   • 1952, Edna Ferber, Giant, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 20, p. 337,^[6]

     The little dancing floor in the center of the dining room suddenly was asquirm with posturing figures in mantillas and silks and boleros.

   • 1964, Willard M. Wallace, Appeal to Arms, Chicago: Quadrangle Books, Chapter 5, p. 58,^[7]

     […] such supplies as did arrive were as often as not scarcely fit to eat, the bread moldy, the biscuit asquirm with weevils, the butter rancid […]

   • 1972, Dick Perry, One Way to Write Your Novel, Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest, Chapter 3, p. 14,^[8]

     If, then, your idea is large and sweeping, asquirm with plots sub and counter […]