The word 'squirrelly' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a colloquial term meaning skittish, nervous or unpredictable. Example: Despite being a trained professional, the new acrobat was feeling a bit squirrelly before her first performance.
"ICE AG E, a film about the antics of a group of prehistoric mammals, was such a hit that Regent Street in London was festooned with Christmas lights in honour of its stars: Manny the mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the sabre-tooth and an irritating squirrelly creature called Scrat.Those characters were, of course, the products of cartoonists' imaginations.
Unfamiliarity breeds contempt, the professors discover: those who tune out politics are the most likely to think politicians are all awful (people in politics are "squirrelly", a Texan student told them, flatly).An age of distrustThe young were not always so jaundiced.
Now, as ever, Adina is out of Nemorino's reach, perched on top of a truck, where she sceptically relates the story of Tristan and Isolde while Geoffrey Dolton's squirrelly Dulcamara darts from pesticide to plant food, concocting the elixir that will, in a roundabout fashion, unlock Adina's heart and blur the wrinkles and receding hairlines of her gullible workers.
Stuck in second gear with a squirrelly front brake, I finally gave up all hope of a swim.
"Suddenly there'd be hours of time when she'd be all squirrelly — three, four hours at a time where I don't know where she is, because she's swimming".
He openly confessed to hating Kipling, while recognizing his genius, and his parody of Kipling is a brutal picture of imperial hysteria at a squirrelly high pitch.
What makes the issue squirrelly is that membership in all-male organizations has long been verboten for aspiring federal judges.
A Renaissance pastiche, the work is marred by its overly persnickety verisimilitude and by the squirrelly attitudes of the models — as if neither they nor the painter knew quite what was expected of them — but it is delicately done in an over-all shimmering harmony of subdued yellows and blues.
January 17 2009 March 8 200909 In Austin Pendleton's staging of Chekhov's drama, about a turn-of-the-century Russian family at odds over love and money, Denis O'Hare's Vanya seems less like a lovesick widower than a squirrelly, callow college student.
Then I noticed a couple of haole guys my age standing in the bushes at the edge of the clearing, looking squirrelly.
She can tell when I'm getting squirrelly, and she shoots me a look across the room that says, It's O.K., Lena, just give it a second.
