Pronunciations (2)
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/skwɪʃ/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- Canada
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/skwəʃ/
Pronunciation notes
- New-Zealand
Verb
To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
- Informal
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The sandwich tasted fine, even though it had got squished in his lunchbox.
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It hadn't rained for a few days, and the water in the ditch had been stagnant long enough for insect larvae to hatch. One landed on her nose, and she squished it before flicking it away from her finger.
Rather than squishing everything into a tiny window, I have shown only part of my app.
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If you see aphids on your broad beans, don’t panic. Don’t squish or spray immediately, but sit back and see what happens.
To be compressed or squeezed.
Usage- Informal
- Intransitive
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I kicked off my shoes and wiggled my toes on the soft moss. It felt amazing as it squished between my toes, cool and mushy.
To make the sound of something being squeezed or crushed.
Usage- Informal
- Intransitive
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His clothes were dripping wet and his shoes squished with every step.
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Annie gripped the notebook like a lance and hurried out the door. Annie Laurance-Darling off to war! But she did wish her shoes would stop squishing as she walked.
My clothes still haven’t dried from the last time we went swimming. I haven’t been dry since my plane from Phoenix landed. My socks never stop squishing and my underwear chafes.
To proceed or make one’s way (somewhere) with the sound of something being squeezed or crushed.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
- Informal
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LIKE A DUCK—Soaked to the point of not caring, this waterlogged pedestrian squishes his way across a downtown street.
We squished down a rutted lane, side-stepped a herd of cows, and eventually found an explanatory plaque.
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About two miles up the steep hill that rises above this village, muddy water gushed through tents and small children dressed in light clothing squished around barefoot.
“On your left!” a rider yelled, tires squishing through the ooze.
Taking soil samples is time-consuming, tedious work. Drive for hours. Walk for hours. Bushwhack. Squish around in bogs. Gather a spoonful of dirt. Do it all again.
Noun
The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
Usage- Countable
- Informal
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Alex reached the bottom and Grant heard a squish as she landed in the mud on the bottom of the river.
A political moderate; a moderate on a specific issue.
Usage- Countable
- Derogatory
- Informal
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The cadre of squishes in this party may disgree with me.
He's a squish on abortion.
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Some conservatives think that in the long run, the party [i.e., the Republican Party] will be better off without squishes like [Arlen] Specter muddling the coherence of its brand; […]
“Josh Mandel: Another failed career politician squish,” a new ad from a super PAC supporting Mr. [JD] Vance blared on Ohio television sets on Friday, calling Mr. Mandel, who is mounting his third Senate run, a “two-time loser” and “a moderate for the moderates.”
An effect in internal combustion engines which creates sudden turbulence of the air–fuel mixture as the piston approaches top dead center.
Usage- attributive
- Informal
- often
- Uncountable
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The movement of the jet in the type of cylinder used by Mr. [Harry] Ricardo was an interesting problem. The fuel was shot down quite close to the periphery of the cylindrical surface and yet managed to reach about 80 per cent of the air. He felt doubtful about the existence of a free vortex , and the effect of a pressure difference, due to it, upon the jet. He thought that the most probable path for the movement of the fuel was similar to that shown in Fig. 21, p. 148, and that the satisfactory mixing was brought about largely by the “squish.”
According to this correlation, engine N is the worst, having a requirement about 5 numbers above the mean at low speeds. The only reason which can be suggested for this high requirement is that engine N had a very small “squish” area compared with some of the other engines with a similar type of combustion chamber. Since squish occurs late in the compression stroke, it is not likely to affect maximum-power spark timing.
In new cars, the uneven combustion, and hence the knock, stems from a reduction in the "squish" area—a tiny 1-millimeter-wide space between the top of the piston and the flat edge of the combustion chamber. In their drive to improve performance and reduce emissions, auto makers have been reducing the squish in an effort to improve the mixing of gasoline and air.
The turning point was the acquisition, in 1958, of a used Morgan Plus 4, registered TOK 258, for £650. Teaching himself the theory and practice of camshaft profiles, combustion chamber design and "squish" area, Chris gradually increased the power output of the Morgan's humble two-litre Triumph TR2 engine (originally designed for the Ferguson tractor) from 95bhp to 156bhp.
A continuum or progression between categories that are normally considered discrete.
Usage- Countable
- Informal
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To show that a squish exists, I will cite a number of grammatical processes which work most for verbs, less for adjectives, and least for nouns. That is, to pass from left to right along the squish of (1) is to move in the direction of syntactic inertness, and to move away from syntactic freedom and volatility.
The original question remains: Why can so-called MCP [main clause phenomena] occur in some subordinate clauses? However, the data have forced us to alter this question to: Why do some MCP embed in lots of subordinate clauses, and some in few or none? And why do some subordinate clause types embed more MCP than others? This formulation suggests that we have a gradience or squish depending on two hierarchies.
Some pseudo-titles will gradually become so accepted that they pass into the realm of fully accepted titles. I would expect expect that within five years Prime Minister will be in such a position in New Zealand, no more unusual than President without a determiner. Other ministerial titles may eventually follow suit. Thus, common count nouns will move into the title category, or at towards the titleness end of the squish.
A non-romantic and generally non-sexual infatuation with somebody one is not dating, or the object of that infatuation; a platonic crush.
Usage- Countable
- Informal
- Slang
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Heck, there is so _little_ love in this world, you really ought not to disparage it when you find it. So she's got a squish on you. I think it's %sweet%, personally.
After feeling these concerns, I was happy to learn about squishes and queerplatonic partners (also known as zucchinis, for some reason unclear to me).
I am making the best of the situation because I want my squish to be happy, and I'd rather have a friendship with him than nothing at all.
Marmalade.
Usage- UK usage
- Archaic
- Informal
- Slang
- Uncountable
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Where they are loaves and joints melt as snow in the sunshine; bowls of cream are of no more account than acorn-cups filled with dew; and the 'squish'—as they call the mother's home-made marmalade—has to be renewed daily; […]
There was a time when the “squish” manufactured by Mr. Frank Cooper at Oxford was not known very extensively outside the world of undergraduates. With the march of events though the fame of Cooper's Oxford marmalade has become world-wide, and the natural consequence is that a new factory has had to be built to cope with the increased business.
Noun
the noise of soft mud being walked on
- Broader terms
Verb
walk through mud or mire
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We had to splosh across the wet meadow
put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action