squishy
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squishy (comparative squishier or more squishy, superlative squishiest or most squishy)
- (of an object or substance) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud.
- 2015, Andrea Chesman, The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How:
- Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).
- (slang) Used as a term of endearment. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (informal) Subjective or vague.
- April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair[1]:
- How does the media love Twitter? Let us count the ways: as a tech platform practically indispensable to the work of newsgathering; as a metrics system designating clear numerical value to once-squishy concepts of popularity and esteem; as a gossip-fueled lunchroom of the elites more or less available for public participation; as an arena for duking out industry controversies ranging from #MeToo to opinions about opinion pages.
- (politics, informal, derogatory) Politically moderate.
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(of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud
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squishy (plural squishies)
- (informal) A squeezable foam toy.