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On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:17:52 -0400, Brian M. Scott wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 23:27:45 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com>
> wrote in<news:ntnvu9.1o0G@kithrup.com> in rec.arts.sf.composition:
> 
>> In article <mripgj$37f$1@dont-email.me>,
>> William Vetter  <mdhangton@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I think that this word has separate, almost conflicting meanings in US
>>> and UK.
> 
>>> In UK it means jittery, restless, unpredictable.
> 
>>> In US, especially rural US, it means cunning, a trickster, difficult
>>> to pin down.
> 
>>> Is this so?
> 
>> In my experience (73 years in the US, but mostly in the West) it means
>> crazy.
> 
> In mine it’s not that strong: it’s ‘erratic, unpredictable,
> likely to act without due regard for possible consequences to self and
> others’.
> 
> Brian

Well, some people use the term "crazy" to mean what you described.  It 
certainly fits the personality of the squirrels I have encountered.

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squirrelly William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 18:17 -0400
  Re: squirrelly "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-25 19:04 -0400
    Re: squirrelly William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 19:41 -0400
    Re: squirrelly Bill Swears <wswears@gci.net> - 2015-08-27 07:00 -0800
  Re: squirrelly djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-25 23:27 +0000
    Re: squirrelly "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-25 21:17 -0400
      Re: squirrelly "John F. Eldredge" <john@jfeldredge.com> - 2015-09-02 22:25 +0000
        Re: squirrelly djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-02 22:41 +0000
          Re: squirrelly "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-09-02 19:46 -0400
  Re: squirrelly "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2015-08-25 22:36 -0400
  Re: squirrelly Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2015-08-25 22:57 -0300
    Re: squirrelly djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-26 11:36 +0000
  Re: squirrelly Jim Hetley <jhetley@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-26 04:49 -0700

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