Meanings
verbsquir (third-person singular simple present squirs, present participle squirring, simple past and past participle squirred)
present singular third person squirs · participle present squirring · participle past squirred · past squirred · alternative squirr
- obsoleteTo throw with a jerking motion; to skim.
We took a turn or two more, when, to my great surprise, I saw him squir away his watch a considerable way into the Thames
1711 June 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Eustace Budgell], “MONDAY, May 29, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 77; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with squir
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