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   William Vetter to All   
   squirrelly   
   25 Aug 15 18:17:20   
   
   From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   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?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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