sqush

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skwʊʃ/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /skwʉʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʊʃ

Verb

sqush (third-person singular simple present squshes, present participle squshing, simple past and past participle squshed)

1. (intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
   • 1885, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn:

     Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden.

   • 1909, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls:

     […] it was little better than a swamp, and at every step their shoes went sqush […]

   • 1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun, page 12:

     His feet squshed in the water as he went […] He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little.

   • 1965, Ezra Pound, The Cantos:

     […] a "throne", something God can sit on without having it sqush […]

   • 1855, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass, page 36:

     […] At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush....sucking the juice through a straw,