Squirrelly

Instead of a piggy bank, Tom has a "squirrelly bank".

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. […]."

"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.

Some of these lemurs seem almost squirrelly.