Finch vs Squirm - What's the difference?
finch | squirm |
Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
To hunt for finches, to go finching.
To twist one’s body with snakelike motions.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
* 2010 , ,
To evade (a question, an interviewer etc).
(figuratively) To move in a slow, irregular motion.
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As nouns the difference between finch and squirm
is that finch is any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak while squirm is a twisting, snakelike movement of the body.As verbs the difference between finch and squirm
is that finch is to hunt for finches, to go finching while squirm is to twist one’s body with snakelike motions.As a proper noun Finch
is {{surname}.finch
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(wikipedia finch)Noun
(es)Derived terms
* bullfinch * chaffinch * * * goldfinch * * greenfinch * hawfinch * * * * rosefinch * * *See also
* brambling * canary * crossbill * redpoll * serin * siskinVerb
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Verb
(en verb)- The prisoner managed to squirm out of the straitjacket.
- ...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.
- "Throw it away, dear, do," she said, as they got into the road; but Jacob squirmed away from her...
- I recounted the embarrassing story in detail just to watch him squirm .
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.
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