asquirm
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "But a fish-market, even at Rialto […] is only a fish-market after all: it is wet and slimy under foot, and the innumerable gigantic eels, writhing everywhere, set the soul asquirm, and soon-sated curiosity slides willingly away."
- "[…] he sat with his trousers rolled up to the knees and his blue-white city toes asquirm in the cleanest muck he’d ever felt."
- "From where they sat on the rowing thwarts, they made blind passes with their herring rakes, bringing them up with silver asquirm on each needle-sharp tooth."
- "[…] this child, unlike the first, was easily stirred to rages. The slightest discomfort set her asquirm […]"
- "an aquarium all asquirm with trout and gold fish"
- "The little dancing floor in the center of the dining room suddenly was asquirm with posturing figures in mantillas and silks and boleros."
Etymology
From a- + squirm.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a
Inflected Forms
more asquirm (comparative)
most asquirm (superlative)