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名詞

squirmage (uncountable)

1. (slang) The act of squirming.
   • 2007 May 9, Harry Sanderford, “A Bedtime Story”, in A Prairie Home Companion:

     In bed, Lauren has never been able to control her lateral squirmage. She is the needle on a compass and Spencer is due North.

2. (slang, by extension) The condition or quality of causing a state of discomfort, particularly disgust, fear, or embarrassment.
   • c. 2005, Angus Wolfe Murray, Waiting… review, Eye for Film:

     Pants down gags are as loud and lively as fart jokes, but willy waving in a restaurant kitchen is a whole new area of squirmage, hitherto unexplored.

アナグラム

• quagmires