Definitions
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- noun slang A source of psychological discomfort.
- verb slang, transitive To
gross out , todisgust . - verb slang, intransitive To be grossed out, to experience disgust.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The entire purpose of the term squick (at least within the a.s.b community where I first encountered it) is to distinguish a non-judgemental repulsion (a squick) from a judgemental repulsion.
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The entire purpose of the term squick (at least within the a.s.b community where I first encountered it) is to distinguish a non-judgemental repulsion (a squick) from a judgemental repulsion.
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But I suspect that the vagina-squick is not actually so powerful and the PC-angst not so extreme as to fully explain the force it carries.
On Profanity: 3 Hal Duncan 2009
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But I suspect that the vagina-squick is not actually so powerful and the PC-angst not so extreme as to fully explain the force it carries.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Thanks Dark Eden....new word squick added to my vocabulary.
Is Rush Limbaugh really that hard to understand? Ann Althouse 2009
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Ah, it's great stuff, and I really recommend the series - but be warned there is serious Disturbing Imagery therein, and some of it may hit one of your squick points.
Lucy in the Sky with Spirals intertribal 2010
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Ah, it's great stuff, and I really recommend the series - but be warned there is serious Disturbing Imagery therein, and some of it may hit one of your squick points.
intertribal: Lucy in the Sky with Spirals intertribal 2010
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In fact, you didn't hit my embarrassment squick once, even though there are events which would have under another author's fingers.
GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD discussion/question thread. karenhealey 2010
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I know that everybody's got their own squick factor, but geez.
social disturbances: let's get honest intertribal 2010
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I know that everybody's got their own squick factor, but geez.
intertribal: social disturbances: let's get honest intertribal 2010
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A squick is an old fandom term for something that makes you supremely uncomfortable and you absolutely do not want to read it. It can be a trope, a ship, a concept, or just an event that happens within a fic or in canon.
What's a squick? Peter Vidani 2016
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Squick is a term commonly used in fannish discussions about fanworks or professional media that describes anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off for the fan.
Squick - Fanlore 2023
plethora commented on the word squick
Heh. See twincest. *shudder*
July 8, 2008
avivamagnolia commented on the word squick
squick: v. to disturb, unsettle, make uneasy; to cause disgust or revulsion; to gross (someone) out; to freak (someone) out. Also noun, something which causes disgust, revulsion, or uneasiness, or the disgust, revulsion, or uneasiness itself. Also squick (someone) out.
January 17, 2009
Vee commented on the word squick
Squick is a word popularly understood to have been coined in BSDM circles, but is now in use in many other areas of the internet. It means nails-on-chalkboard, yikes-run-away, unreasoning, personal distaste for a thing or a practice. I personally have several squicks, including a hatred for humiliation comedy; also, gratuitous splatter violence squicks me out.
June 9, 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word squick
Possibly a contraction of "squeamish" and "ick!" A negative emotional response, more specifically a disturbed or disgusted one. As in: "The relationship between Cordelia and Connor in Angel Season Four gave me a case of the squicks."
--TVTropes.org
February 25, 2010
bilby commented on the word squick
I've never come across it.
February 25, 2010