squelching
English edit
Verb edit
squelching
- present participle and gerund of squelch
- 1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 71:
- At Beddgelert, where the journey was broken for a luncheon interval, and where there should have been a glorious view, there was nothing for it but to alight on to the squelching ground of an open hillside.
Noun edit
squelching (plural squelchings)
- The act of something that squelches.
- 1908, Frederick Niven, The Lost Cabin Mine:
- The sound of it was scarce louder than the hiss of the rain, a multitude of soft bubblings and squelchings.