From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Joy Beeson   wrote:   
   >On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:17:20 -0400, William Vetter   
   > 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?   
   >   
   >I haven't heard the "clever" sense, but I have heard "squirrelly" used   
   >to mean "unpredictable"; I could see it sliding into meaning   
   >"unpredictable on purpose".   
      
   I haven't seen that interpretation.  I suspect "squirrely" of   
   being another way of saying "nuts."  Which might actually be its   
   derivation; I'm not going to look it up at 4:30 AM.  I envision   
   "sqauirrely" as the guy who's receiving signals from Mars in his   
   dentures, in spite ot the aluminum foil hat that's suppose to   
   prevent this.   
      
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