squirrelly
/ˈskwɝli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "Mom can act a bit squirrelly sometimes, and I swear it's usually worse after sunset."
- "Near-synonyms: batty, nuts, nutty; see also Thesaurus:eccentric, Thesaurus:insane"
- "Craphound had wicked yard-sale karma, for a rotten, filthy alien bastard. He was too good at panning out the single grain of gold in a raging river of uselessness for me not to like him — respect him, anyway. But then he found the cowboy trunk. It was two months' rent to me and nothing but some squirrelly alien kitsch-fetish to Craphound."
- "Dreyfuss wrote that "it seems far more likely to me that the perpetrator of the bungled Times Square bomb plot was either a lone nut job or a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government far right. […].""
- ""This aircraft seems to be acting a bit squirrelly," the pilot complained uneasily to his copilot."
- ""We got bumped. We got thumped," an American pilot was heard saying. A U.S. pilot also reported that a Chinese plane was "squirrely. Not real steady.""
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈskwɝli/
- British English: /ˈskwɪɹəli/
Inflected Forms
squirrellier (comparative)
more squirrelly (comparative)
squirrelliest (superlative)
most squirrelly (superlative)
squirrely (alternative)