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I wonder where they got that idea and if it's at all related to the Native American sun dance?
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Another board I lurk on is being sampled for words to be added to the dictionary in the future. It's a board for Buffy fans, and they are just as smart, witty, and, yes, snarky, as the show itself. They're definitely the kind of people I want influencing my dictionary.
As for the origin of "squick", the definition that AJ linked (well, I am assuming it's the one I know of) has been linked enough around fandom that if it isn't the actual origin, it's probably retroactively become so.
I read an actual squickfic once. It was like a car crash: I couldn't look away. I thought it was well done, given the subject matter.
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The squicky definitions giving credit to the internet or the kinky crowd are pure unadulterated manure.
Squicky has been around as long as I can remember as a portmanteau/combination of squishy and icky to describe the feeling ya get in your stomach after ya realise that you've just accidentally stepped on a snail/slug barefoot, which worsens as ya try to scrub the remains off. Some folks get that feelin' after stepping barefoot on dog doo, or havin' to clean up barf.
So squicky describes the feeling ya get when ya know that your gonna hate the clean-up even more than the original gross-out.
There doesn't even hafta be either a clean-up or an original gross-out to produce the feeling. I know more than a few people who get squicked out at the thought of eating gumbo/okra.
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Interestingly enough, though "snarky" has been added to the dictionary, "gullible" was removed.
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Annie, Trevor, hanging from hooks was recently seen on Sci-Fi's reality show Mad Mad House . "Alt" Art, who calls himself a "modern primitive" and seems to derive most of his practices from Native American ritual, suspended himself for a considerable time, partly to observe the guests' reactions. The way people pick things up from TV, I bet it came from there--though obviously some people were already doing it.
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