Eggcorns, homophone hilarity and verb transitivity

[cimorene]

1. face now turning beat red,

[ouch]


2. He suddenly felt squirmish



3. Steves hands threw up in the air again

[ew]


4. Feeling like they are bearing into his soul a bit

[Is that like they were sailing parallel to his soul but have altered course to gradually impinge upon it?]


5. he pinned away



6. gouging themselves on much too expensive food

[CAN you overcharge yourself? At least it sounds slightly more pleasant than the more physical sort of gouging, which would also require the food to be both expensive and sharp.]

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

I rather like No. 2 but the rest are just cringy.

[cimorene]

Gouging was a nice bit of novelty, I thought. A rare target for this type of confusion.

But I agree that "squirmish" is the winner. There's something cute about it, somehow.