Shimmy vs Squirm - What's the difference?
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A dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
(rare) A sleeveless chemise.
(dance) To perform a (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel.
(rare) To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy.
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.
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To evade (a question, an interviewer etc).
(figuratively) To move in a slow, irregular motion.
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As nouns the difference between shimmy and squirm
is that shimmy is a dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately while squirm is a twisting, snakelike movement of the body.As verbs the difference between shimmy and squirm
is that shimmy is (dance) to perform a (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately) while squirm is to twist one’s body with snakelike motions.shimmy
English
(wikipedia shimmy)Noun
(shimmies)Verb
- He shimmied up the flagpole.
- The static made her dress shimmy up her leg.
Synonyms
* (climb a pole) shinny, shin (qualifier)squirm
English
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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