Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To throw with a jerk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To throw with a jerk; to throw edge foremost.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
throw with ajerk ; to throwedge foremost .
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Examples
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I know he give her a flyin 'squir'l, an' she embroidered him a hat-band.
Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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Page 16 hev 'Lijah jailed, stiddier goin' round the woods a-talkin 'ter the grasshoppers an' squir'ls, ez seem ter actially know the critter, an 'bein' ez happy ez they air, 'ceptin' when he gits it inter his noodle, like he sometimes do, ez he ain't edzactly like other folks be? "
In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885
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But Charlotte thinks nothing less than men and women worthy of hers; her parrot and squir-rel, the one for its prattle, the other for its vivacity, excepted.
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Native visual broadcasts had identified these as squir-rels.
Quozl Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1989
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Between the comical antics of the squir-rel, the warmth of the Shirazian sun, and his aroused thoughts, the last thing he expected by way of interruption was screaming.
Quozl Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1989
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Bears typically don't start gorging themselves on the troves of pine nuts that are stashed by squir-rels until mid-August.
bestiary commented on the word squir
v: to throw; to thrust; to drive.
-1828 webster's
July 26, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word squir
Oh my! *quivering with joy*
July 26, 2008
yarb commented on the word squir
Wow.
July 26, 2008
bestiary commented on the word squir
well! that's probably the best reaction to having listed a word one could hope for. better when one of its definitions is "to thrust."
July 26, 2008
rolig commented on the word squir
a lovely word, but a citation would be helpful. Just what sort of throw, thrusting, and driving are we talking about?
July 26, 2008
bestiary commented on the word squir
in 1913, webster's revised unabridged dictionary adds "to throw with a jerk; to throw edge foremost." sounds like an early synonym of fling.
a hard thing to google, what with the squires and squirrels about!
July 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word squir
Does it say where you can acquire the jerk?
July 29, 2008
dontcry commented on the word squir
*snort*
July 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word squir
I think we have a few jerks to spare over here, rt.
July 30, 2008