Squirted vs Squirmed - What's the difference?
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(squirt)
An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
A small, quick stream; a jet.
* 2007 , Peter Elst, Sas Jacobs, Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 ,
(slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
* 1946 , , 2005,
(UK, US, Australia, slang) A small child.
* 1986 , Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins, Cutlass Island'', entry in ''Dictionary of American Children?s Fiction, 1960-1984: Recent Books of Recognized Merit ,
* 2010 , Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride , Bethany House Publishers, US,
(slang) Female ejaculate
(of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
* 1865 , , The Book of Werewolves , 2008, Forgotten Books,
(of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1985 , The Living Australia, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia?s Most Deadly Creatures , 2002, Murdoch Books,
* 2005 , Lisa Heard, NancyRayhorn, 8: Pediatric Sedation'', Jan Odom-Forren, Donna Watson, ''Practical Guide To Moderate Sedation/Analgesia , 2nd Edition,
* 2011 , James Balch, Mark Stengler, Prescription for Natural Cures ,
To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
* 2010 , Christy Isbell, Mighty Fine Motor Fun: Fine Motor Activities for Young Children ,
(figuratively) To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
(intransitive, slang, vulgar, of a female) To ejaculate.
* 2010 , Sonia Borg, Oral Sex She?ll Never Forget ,
(squirm)
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 verbs the difference between squirted and squirmed
is that squirted is (squirt) while squirmed is (squirm).squirted
English
Verb
(head)squirt
English
Noun
(en noun)page 9,
- Chances are you?ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.
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- He was still there when I came up, a squirt' with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his '''squirt''' face. I thought maybe I had seen him around town, but maybe not, the ' squirts look so much alike when they grind them out of journalism school.
- Hey squirt ! Where you been?
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- Hurd returns with Mal, Mr. Eph, and Gumbo, the “town squirt ” of twelve, and the boys? activities come out.
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- How the child managed to converse and fold at the same time was a marvel, yet the shirt lay in a tidy rectangle by the time she came up for air.
- “Thanks, squirt .” He winked at her and she giggled.
Synonyms
* (instrument that forcefully ejects liquid) * * (annoyingly pretentious person) * (small child)Derived terms
* sea squirt * squirt bottleVerb
(en verb)- The toothpaste squirted from the tube.
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- His servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him.
- The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.
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- It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim.
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- When administering the medication, the RN should place the syringe tip along the side of the mouth and slowly squirt the medicine toward the buccal vestibule, not toward the throat.
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- Use a dropper and squirt the desired amount in the side of the child?s mouth.
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- Ask the child to squirt the target with water.
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- Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies.
Synonyms
* (to be ejected in a rapid stream) * (to cause to be ejected in a rapid stream) * (to eject a rapid stream at) * (to speak rapidly) *Anagrams
* quirtssquirmed
English
Verb
(head)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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