squirrelly

squirrelly

Eccentric, high-strung, strange, or skittish. He's kind of a squirrelly guy who keeps to himself. The odd time he does talk to us, it's always about the most random stuff. I could tell the people in the audience were starting to get a bit squirrelly after being kept waiting for so long.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

squirrelly

mod. loony. Good old squirrelly Tom! Isn’t he a wonder?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • high-strung
  • nervy
  • strange bird
  • odd bird
  • strange duck
  • duck
  • case
  • odd bod
  • odd-bod
  • have a loose screw
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By its nature, faith is a squirrelly sort of concept.
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General Hospital, where owner Jack Powers instructed the staff to give John Wieners, a "squirrelly and impoverished Beat poet ..., a gentle, timid soul and a veritable hermit at the time, who eschewed most human contact," whatever money he needed from the till as well as cigarettes on demand; and the informal network of family, friends and fellow poets who sustained him and whom he sustained with his generosity of spirit and intellect.
Clearly, the first lesson for the rest of the world to learn from Japan is that the documented networks of corruption, collusion, and nepotism are not unique to Japan, with its squirrelly industry-regulator politics.
Tony apologized for the bird's squirrelly behavior repeatedly, as if somehow it were his fault.
(a)ANT thus flickers between ossification into academic brand [and basis for the accumulation of cultural capital in what Matthew Sparke has called the "futures market of academic authority"(2009, page 377)] and what can seem a squirrelly unwillingness to be pinned down that can provoke as much suspicion as it does sympathy amongst practitioners of more settled theoretical idioms.
"I think our squirrel got just a little too squirrelly," I said.
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