The story
Genericized trademark of Squirmles, the original brand of the toy owned by the Illfelder Importing Company.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
squirmle
Today it means: A worm-shaped toy with a fuzzy body, a pair of googly eyes, and hidden string used to imitate a live worm, originally released in the 1970s. Full definition →