Definitions
Etymologies
- Believed to have originated as an onomatopoeia in the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.bondage. Popularized primarily in the newsgroup alt.tasteless. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The entire purpose of the term squick (at least within the a.s.b community where I first encountered it) is to distinguish a non-judgemental repulsion (a squick) from a judgemental repulsion.”
“But I suspect that the vagina-squick is not actually so powerful and the PC-angst not so extreme as to fully explain the force it carries.”
“Thanks Dark Eden....new word squick added to my vocabulary.”
“I know that everybody's got their own squick factor, but geez.”
“Ah, it's great stuff, and I really recommend the series - but be warned there is serious Disturbing Imagery therein, and some of it may hit one of your squick points.”
“In fact, you didn't hit my embarrassment squick once, even though there are events which would have under another author's fingers.”
“I have a hefty embarrassment squick myself, so possibly I unconsciously avoid triggering it?”
“Now we * do* have True Blood, but I had to stop watching; HBO went way over the top on the body juices squick.”
“Anyway, I don't believe this vid will squick too many people ... even though it is apparently about Sam/Dean love.”
“This fic ... doesn't remove any of the squick I have to the Wincest concept, which still leaves me cringing (and/or baffled), but I will say that the worldview it takes is believable.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘squick’.
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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words i love
fuss, rhythm, obfuscate, sumptuous, decadence, ethereal, peach, stingy, muscle, wrapper, corpus, dastardly deed and 90 more...
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kirstenio's Words
lascivious, transcendant, phantasmagoria, salacious, beatitude, solitude, pseudo, pretentious, inanity, sublimation, clobber, obscurity and 186 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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Faintheart's Words
onomatopoeia, no, terrafactive, word, faint, heart, joy, quixotic, karla, half, amp, tardis and 181 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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Fandom
fanfic, beta, fanboy, fangirl, fanfiction, fanficcer, spoiler, squeeing, shipping, shipper, ship, one true pairing and 130 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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♦ Mia's invisible list ♦
Wordie vocab, wordlets and wordlings, as well as some commenty Wordie threads. Not that you can see anything, mind.
kleptonarcissist, sapiosexual, firewall account, death by tweakage, homoblivious, multishirking, slacktivism, compulsive shoppi..., waambulance, madeupical, godswallop, word apnea and 199 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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New Oxford American - 2005 Word of th...
Won by Podcast
bird flu, ICE, IDP, IED, lifehack, persistent vegeta..., reggaeton, rootkit, squick, sudoku, transfat, podcast
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slang
fanfic slang, hacker jargon, Internet memes etc. that amuse me—mainly ones I might wish to incorporate as natural in my own writing
asamoth, beta, borg, bozo filter, canon rape, delurk, drabble, eated, eleven, facepalm, fangirl, fanon and 61 more...
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Furry Tells
yiff, squick, ghey, entre chien et loup, herp, geld, furrier, emocore, fanboy, fanart, rule 34, my little pony and 8 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for squick.
bilby I've never come across it. Feb 25, 2010
pterodactyl Possibly a contraction of "squeamish" and "ick!" A negative emotional response, more specifically a disturbed or disgusted one. As in: "The relationship between Cordelia and Connor in Angel Season Four gave me a case of the squicks."
--TVTropes.org Feb 25, 2010
Vee Squick is a word popularly understood to have been coined in BSDM circles, but is now in use in many other areas of the internet. It means nails-on-chalkboard, yikes-run-away, unreasoning, personal distaste for a thing or a practice. I personally have several squicks, including a hatred for humiliation comedy; also, gratuitous splatter violence squicks me out. Jun 8, 2009
avivamagnolia squick: v. to disturb, unsettle, make uneasy; to cause disgust or revulsion; to gross (someone) out; to freak (someone) out. Also noun, something which causes disgust, revulsion, or uneasiness, or the disgust, revulsion, or uneasiness itself. Also squick (someone) out. Jan 17, 2009
plethora Heh. See twincest. *shudder* Jul 8, 2008