"squirmy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "squirm",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "squirm + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "squirm + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "squirmier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more squirmy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "squirmiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most squirmy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er",
        "2": "more"
      },
      "expansion": "squirmy (comparative squirmier or more squirmy, superlative squirmiest or most squirmy)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -y",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "squirminess"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 17, Scott Roxborough, “Berlin: Sydney Sweeney on Becoming NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner for Docu-Fiction ‘Reality’”, in The Hollywood Reporter",
          "text": "Over a tense 83 minutes, Sweeney and Satter present a complex and contradictory image of Reality Winner: not as a lefty firebrand or a noble whistle-blower, but as a squirmy, self-deprecating over-achiever[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That squirms, writhes or wriggles."
      ],
      "id": "en-squirmy-en-adj-UH2BkxVS",
      "links": [
        [
          "squirm",
          "squirm"
        ],
        [
          "writhe",
          "writhe"
        ],
        [
          "wriggle",
          "wriggle"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskwɝmi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskwɜːmi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "squirmy"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "squirminess"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "squirm",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "squirm + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "squirm + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "squirmier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "more squirmy",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "squirmiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most squirmy",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er",
        "2": "more"
      },
      "expansion": "squirmy (comparative squirmier or more squirmy, superlative squirmiest or most squirmy)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -y",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 17, Scott Roxborough, “Berlin: Sydney Sweeney on Becoming NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner for Docu-Fiction ‘Reality’”, in The Hollywood Reporter",
          "text": "Over a tense 83 minutes, Sweeney and Satter present a complex and contradictory image of Reality Winner: not as a lefty firebrand or a noble whistle-blower, but as a squirmy, self-deprecating over-achiever[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That squirms, writhes or wriggles."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "squirm",
          "squirm"
        ],
        [
          "writhe",
          "writhe"
        ],
        [
          "wriggle",
          "wriggle"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskwɝmi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskwɜːmi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "squirmy"
}