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squirrelling — When you and someone else are eating any type of ice cream with chunks of stuff and sharing it out of the container, the act of specifically targeting and digging out all the best big chunks for yourself. Hey! You re squirrelling all the cookie… … Dictionary of american slang
squirrelling — When you and someone else are eating any type of ice cream with chunks of stuff and sharing it out of the container, the act of specifically targeting and digging out all the best big chunks for yourself. Hey! You re squirrelling all the cookie… … Dictionary of american slang
squirrelling — … Useful english dictionary
squirrel — I. /ˈskwɪrəl / (say skwiruhl) noun 1. any of the arboreal, bushy tailed rodents constituting the genus Sciurus (family Sciuridae), as the red squirrel, S. vulgaris, of Europe (including Britain) and Asia, and the grey squirrel, S. carolinensis,… …
squirrel — squirrelish, squirrellike, adj. /skwerr euhl, skwur / or, esp. Brit., /skwir euhl/, n., pl. squirrels, (esp. collectively) squirrel, v., squirreled, squirreling or (esp. Brit.) squirrelled, squirrelling. n. 1. any of numerous arboreal, bushy… … Universalium
squirrel — squir|rel1 [ˈskwırəl US ˈskwə:rəl] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Anglo French; Origin: esquirel, from Latin sciurus, from Greek skiouros, from skia shadow + oura tail ] a small animal with a long furry tail that climbs trees and eats nuts squirrel 2… … Dictionary of contemporary English
squirrel — [[t]skwɪ̱rəl, AM skwɜ͟ːrəl[/t]] squirrels, squirrelling, squirrelled N COUNT A squirrel is a small animal with a long furry tail. Squirrels live mainly in trees. Phrasal Verbs: squirrel away (in AM, use squirreling, squirreled) … English dictionary
squirrel away — PHRASAL VERB If you squirrel things away, you hide or store them so that you can use them in the future. [V n P] She says the kid s been squirrelling money away like there s no tomorrow... [V P n (not pron)] Arlott squirrelled away books,… … English dictionary
squirrel — noun an agile tree dwelling rodent with a bushy tail, typically feeding on nuts and seeds. [Sciurus and other genera: numerous species.] ↘used in names of other rodents of the same family (Sciuridae), e.g. ground squirrel. verb (squirrels,… … English new terms dictionary
squirrel — I UK [ˈskwɪrəl] / US noun [countable] Word forms squirrel : singular squirrel plural squirrels a grey or red brown animal with a long thick tail that lives in trees II UK [ˈskwɪrəl] / US verb Word forms squirrel : present tense I/you/we/they… … English dictionary
