Slink vs Squirm - What's the difference?
slink | squirm |
To sneak about furtively.
* Milton
* Landor
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To give birth to an animal prematurely.
The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
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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, date=February 5
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As nouns the difference between slink and squirm
is that slink is snail while squirm is a twisting, snakelike movement of the body.As a verb squirm is
to twist one’s body with snakelike motions.slink
English
Verb
- Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
- There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
- a cow that slinks her calf
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----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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