"squirrelly" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "squirrel + -ly, 1925. Presumably from erratic movement of squirrels, or by analogy with nuts (“insane”).",
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      "form": "more squirrelly",
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      "form": "squirrelliest",
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      "form": "most squirrelly",
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        "Resembling a squirrel."
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          "text": "Buscemi relished the chance to portray the squirrelly, volatile crook Carl Showalter, a figure that came together only once the actor got dressed.",
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          "ref": "2023 September 5, Elif Batuman, “Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "I wonder why it didn’t give me a direct quote. I hope it isn’t going to be squirrelly or weird about quotes. Maybe it’s stressed out about copyrighted translations. I’ll try asking for the original.",
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        "(figurative) Unpredictable or jumpy."
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          "ref": "1998, Cory Doctorow, Craphound",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2010 May 5, Jeffrey Goldberg, quoting Robert Dreyfuss, “The Meaning of Faisal 'Rorschach' Shahzad”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "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. […].\"",
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