squirrelly

adj

1. (figuratively)Resembling a squirrel.

   “Mom can act a bit squirrelly sometimes, and I swear it's usually worse after sunset.”

   “Near-synonyms: batty, nuts, nutty; see also Thesaurus:eccentric, Thesaurus:insane”

   “Craphound had wicked yard-sale karma, for a rotten, filthy alien bastard. He was too good at panning out the single grain of gold in a raging river of uselessness for me not to like him — respect him, anyway. But then he found the cowboy trunk. It was two months' rent to me and nothing but some squirrelly alien kitsch-fetish to Craphound.”

   “Dreyfuss wrote that "it seems far more likely to me that the perpetrator of the bungled Times Square bomb plot was either a lone nut job or a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government far right. […]."”

2. (figuratively)Resembling a squirrel.

   “"This aircraft seems to be acting a bit squirrelly," the pilot complained uneasily to his copilot.”

   “"We got bumped. We got thumped," an American pilot was heard saying. A U.S. pilot also reported that a Chinese plane was "squirrely. Not real steady."”

   “Buscemi relished the chance to portray the squirrelly, volatile crook Carl Showalter, a figure that came together only once the actor got dressed.”

   “I wonder why it didn’t give me a direct quote. I hope it isn’t going to be squirrelly or weird about quotes. Maybe it’s stressed out about copyrighted translations. I’ll try asking for the original.”

3. Resembling a squirrel.

   “Some of these lemurs seem almost squirrelly.”