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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
squirrel .
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Examples
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After Tony Crosland died when foreign secretary, in 1977, she had to sell the house they lived in and the country refuge they'd just bought in Oxfordshire: there was no pile of political loot to fall back on, no expense account bundles squirrelled away.
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The last time the World Cup was held in Brazil, back in 1950, your super soaraway Manchester Guardian squirrelled away its report of what was effectively the final – that famous game between the hosts and their victors Uruguay, still the single most dramatic event in the entire history of the sport – at the bottom of page five, column seven.
Girl from Ipanema was not the only bum note struck at a Rio marina | Scott Murray 2011
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Two World Bank directors are flying to the Middle East this weekend to work on recovering some of the assets squirrelled away by members of the deposed regimes in Egypt and Tunisia.
World Bank wants anti-graft lessons on school curriculum in poor countries 2011
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Turns out after the initial run on Baghdad they squirrelled Petraeus away at the Army war college and he rewrote the book on counterinsurgency (literally).
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Two World Bank directors are flying to the Middle East this weekend to work on recovering some of the assets squirrelled away by members of the deposed regimes in Egypt and Tunisia.
World Bank wants anti-graft lessons on school curriculum in poor countries 2011
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And then it was gone (except for quart or so in a gallon bag that I squirrelled away in the freezer.)
Kidney Beans 2008
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And then it was gone (except for quart or so in a gallon bag that I squirrelled away in the freezer.)
Kidney Beans 2008
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And then it was gone (except for quart or so in a gallon bag that I squirrelled away in the freezer.)
Kidney Beans 2008
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Bhojwani's deception came to light back in 2000, when the Financial Times printed an investigation into Abacha's looted billions – in particular money which was squirrelled away in two Swiss bank accounts registered in the names Kaiser and Seuze.
Jersey court jails former Nigerian dictator's business associate 2010
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(It might be worth taking a look at the full list to see if something's been squirrelled away in a different category – this would have been the longest blog in history if I'd written them all out for here.)
mollusque commented on the word squirrelled
Longest English word pronounceable as one syllable.
August 4, 2009
bilby commented on the word squirrelled
I chop my squirrelled in half.
August 4, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word squirrelled
it casts a long shadow with its tail.(hint: look up the etymology)
August 4, 2009
madmouth commented on the word squirrelled
has the distinction of having no 'true' vowels in it, either; a real consonant soup (underneath the spelling)
August 4, 2009