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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.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
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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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