What's the difference between jumpy and squirrelly?

Jumpy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standoff has become a personal battle for the soul of the French right, a contest between Sarkozy’s jumpy and divisive personality and Juppé’s pipe-and-slippers calm.
  • (2) "Security forces have been on high alert for the last six days, jumpy, and were concerned that something might happen.
  • (3) "Jumpy" guards failed to recognise their leader and opened fire on a perceived security threat.
  • (4) However, Cameron has always been jumpy about highlighting these differences, acutely aware of the history of Downing Street battles, including Blair-Brown.
  • (5) Lewis was also aware that many in the unionist community were extremely jumpy about Corbyn’s Irish republican politics, and he thought his continued presence might reassure.
  • (6) The jumpy mood over MPs' behaviour was heightened when Fabricant was suddenly sacked for a series of injudicious tweets, including one saying it was about time Miller was sacked.
  • (7) Labour strategists were, in private, hilariously paranoid and jumpy, like dogs cowering at a firework display David Hare It was this kind of human weakness and fallibility that, up close, made the Labour party 20-odd years ago so sympathetic.
  • (8) Jay Pharoah and Shasheer Zamata’s Jay Z and Solange impressions were flawless, as was Keenan Thompson as Jay’s jumpy bodyguard and Maya Rudolph as Beyoncé.
  • (9) Twelve who retained 72 per cent of the load were normal or small at birth, amply fed on demand, and grew at accelerated rates, increasing from the 50th to the 88th mean percentile by ten weeks, when they were "fat, hungry, jumpy babies," exemplifying the Mg deficiency syndrome of growth.
  • (10) Arsenal were by turns sluggish, incisive and oddly jumpy as Olivier Giroud scored at both ends, one Sunderland’s equaliser, the other the second of his side’s three goals.
  • (11) Two-week-old pups of both strains showed good acquisition and retention in learning tests without shock, but the "jumpy" behavior disturbed performance to a certain degree in the SRH strain.
  • (12) Mauritanian sources said "jumpy" military guards at a checkpoint mistook Abdel Aziz, who was returning to the capital, Nouakchott, after a trip to the desert, for a security threat.
  • (13) Investors have become jumpy about any potential threat to the publisher's balance sheet should the civil cases result in damages payments.
  • (14) In the meantime, survivors of major catastrophes who experience acute symptoms of PTSD such as insomnia, nightmares, and jumpiness should be observed for nonresolution of symptoms over time, especially if there is a premorbid history of psychopathology or character problems.
  • (15) It is guarded by jumpy soldiers who permit no vehicle to stop near it, let alone any photographs.
  • (16) I get jumpy when someone honks their horn, and occasionally I have bad dreams and wake up at night, my wife asking me: “What’s up?”, and I tell her I’m being chased by Germans.
  • (17) The Tory scramble for a riposte shows how jumpy they are – and with good reason.
  • (18) When he affirmed that he did, I said that Tonight's the Night seemed like the inevitable culmination of the path Young blazed with Time Fades Away – his jumpy, nearly-out-of-control live album – and the intensely introspective On the Beach.
  • (19) Brussels attacker 'caught in Turkey last June', Turkish president says – live Read more On the first of three days of national mourning, the mood in the city was at once proud and sad, defiant and jumpy.
  • (20) The best new play category is between One Man, Two Guvnors, The Ladykillers, Collaborators and Jumpy , which was at the Royal Court and transfers to the West End this year.

Squirrelly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Docked myself a point for squirrelly sipping.” The commentary is indeed infectiously ridiculous.
  • (2) And never mind the fact Feedly seems to already have 3 million subscribers … The best explanation I've read (on my Reader feeds) is that Google wants to draw the curtain, perform some surgery, and reintroduce its RSS reader as part of Google+ , perhaps with some Google Now thrown in: While I can't say I'm a fan of squirrelly attempts to draw me into Google+ , I must admit that RSS feeds could be a good fit… Stories could appear as bigger, better versions of the single-line entry in Reader, more like the big-photo entries that Facebook's new News Feed uses .

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